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Anything wrong with using IMAP as authentication for a web app to achieve a kind of easy SSO?

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The idea would be to wrap a server-side IMAP client in a wrapper that transforms IMAP authentication into a web API for authentication (maybe OAuth?). When the back-end application receives credentials, it then passes them onto IMAP withou… Continue reading Anything wrong with using IMAP as authentication for a web app to achieve a kind of easy SSO?→