# OAuth login for Gmail/Gsuite email inboxes

**URL:** https://community.zammad.org/t/oauth-login-for-gmail-gsuite-email-inboxes/4615
**Category:** Lobby
**Created:** [May 13, 2020, 9:06am UTC](https://community.zammad.org/t/oauth-login-for-gmail-gsuite-email-inboxes/4615 "2020-05-13T09:06:46Z")
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### Author: ![thomasvm](https://community.zammad.org/user_avatar/community.zammad.org/thomasvm/32/2840_2.png) [@thomasvm](https://community.zammad.org/u/thomasvm)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2020, 9:06am UTC](https://community.zammad.org/t/oauth-login-for-gmail-gsuite-email-inboxes/4615/1 "2020-05-13T09:06:46Z")

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We are currently considering zammad as our ticket handling platform. We are very impressed with nearly all aspects of your product. There is only one thing that keeps us from going all in and that is how to setup gmail/google inboxes.

For the moment this requires user/password login and “allow less secure apps” to be enabled on your gmail inbox, but we would rather use the recommended OAuth mechanism as suggested by Google. Mostly because Google is retiring this mechanism in the foreseeable future.

If found a recent github ticket in your repository that mentions a git branch. Could you shed a light on how far developed this is, and when we could see this functionality in a release?

> <https://github.com/zammad/zammad/issues/2866>
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> \### Infos:
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> \* Used Zammad version: git ref cccec58c2e327e113ff558d67c0d8777735…882a5
> \* Installation method (source, package, ..): source
> \* Operating system: Ubuntu 18.04
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> \### Expected behavior:
> \* Fetch all e-mails from Gsuite e-mail account using OAUTH2
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> \### Actual behavior:
> \* Can’t authenticate IMAP using OAUTH2
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> We received today the following email from Google. They will shutdown the user/password IMAP authentification method starting next year. This will result in beeing not able to fetch emails from Google accounts. 
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> !\[image\](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/5267143/70948235-fc2fe780-2028-11ea-811a-adcfbb897091.png)

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### Author: ![MrGeneration](https://community.zammad.org/user_avatar/community.zammad.org/mrgeneration/32/9260_2.png) [@MrGeneration](https://community.zammad.org/u/MrGeneration)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2020, 9:23am UTC](https://community.zammad.org/t/oauth-login-for-gmail-gsuite-email-inboxes/4615/2 "2020-05-13T09:23:00Z")

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Sorry but we generally do not provide any ETAs.  
I changed the category of this topic from feature request to lobby, as your post is none.

We will update the issue accordingly as soon as something moves in a direction that’s a valueable information for everybody.

That being said, don’t worry, we’ll hold the deadline of Google for the first deprecation phase.

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### Author: ![thomasvm](https://community.zammad.org/user_avatar/community.zammad.org/thomasvm/32/2840_2.png) [@thomasvm](https://community.zammad.org/u/thomasvm)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2020, 9:31am UTC](https://community.zammad.org/t/oauth-login-for-gmail-gsuite-email-inboxes/4615/3 "2020-05-13T09:31:40Z")

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Thank you for the quick response.

I understand that you don’t want to be tied to ETA’s; what’s important to us is that you plan to respect the Google deprecations and that gmail/gsuite integration is important to you. Keep up the good work 👍

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### Author: ![thomasvm](https://community.zammad.org/user_avatar/community.zammad.org/thomasvm/32/2840_2.png) [@thomasvm](https://community.zammad.org/u/thomasvm)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2020, 10:48am UTC](https://community.zammad.org/t/oauth-login-for-gmail-gsuite-email-inboxes/4615/4 "2020-06-22T10:48:25Z")

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Just checked the [release notes](https://zammad.com/news/release-3-4) of Zammad 3.4. Great to see oauth support for google added. Thanks!

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### Author: ![system](https://community.zammad.org/uploads/default/original/1X/5c5afaea2d23f811dbec33cd4edb02fa29d3262f.png) [@system](https://community.zammad.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2021, 1:06am UTC](https://community.zammad.org/t/oauth-login-for-gmail-gsuite-email-inboxes/4615/5 "2021-07-04T01:06:58Z")

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