[Akonadi] [Bug 404990] Sign in with Google temporarily disabled for this app

[Alexander Potashev]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=404990

--- Comment #98 from Alexander Potashev <aspotashev at gmail.com> ---
I have a idea for workaround.


For the context, read carefully:
https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/auth/about-auth
It mentions verification of *public* applications.

Google permits usage of Google APIs without app verification unless you
application is published. For example, I use my own little script for automated
processing of some specific types of emails that I receive daily on my Gmail
address - Google doesn't care about verification in this case because it's my
personal app.

So, what if we let KMail users create their "applications" at Google API
Console [1] and force KMail to use the new app token instead of the KMail's
official token?
This sounds like an abuse Google APIs at first, but we can view this as if the
user forked KMail and created a new app token for it since their "forked"
version of KMail is now personal application.


To make this workaround easy to employ, we need to un-hardcode the Akonadi's
Google app ID and put it in a configuration file. At the moment it is hardcoded
as https://github.com/KDE/kdepim-runtime/search?q=554041944266 - in these two
files:
 - resources/google/common/googlesettings.cpp
 - resources/imap/gmailpasswordrequester.cpp


[1] https://console.developers.google.com/

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