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Re:Mozilla Acquires Pocket by vertex-four on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @04:24AM (#13752472)
GMail has been pushing for its custom XOAUTH2 authentication for a while, and password-based authentication can result in security warnings. Password-based authentication also doesn't support 2FA.

By the way - the IETF standardised an OAuth2 SASL mechanism (RFC 7628) a couple of years ago, no idea why GMail doesn't support it.

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