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I am wondering what Gmail APIs one would use to read, move or delete e-mail, noting that IMAP is disabled on most users’ accounts by default.
To give you an idea – I tried out a couple of websites like OtherInbox and email game – making sure that IMAP was disabled on my account and these two sites still worked, which made me wonder that they were probably using some other API from gmail which I haven’t been able to find. Any ideas?
Thanks – I would appreciate any help on this!
It turns out that even if IMAP is disabled on the account, but, the user gives access to gmail to a website – the website can access the account as an IMAP client using the IMAP API calls, and, thus perform the basic actions of reading, moving and deleting e-mail.