June 15, 2014
8:35 p.m.
On 6/14/2014 5:15 PM, John Levine wrote:
AOL and Yahoo both have OAUTH APIs, but they are not the same, and I see no likelihood that the APIs will converge, or that the next large webmail provider to DMARC us will be compatible with either. But everyone has a SUBMIT server.
For other reasons, I've poked into OAUTH for email before. I've been told that some Google employees are working on documents for dynamic client registration and endpoint discovery, but all the references I've found seem to imply that endpoint discovery is consistently being tabled for later work.
-- Joshua Cranmer Thunderbird and DXR developer Source code archæologist