Google wants $4,500 from third-party mail apps | Pegasus Mail
At the end of May 2022, GMail (Google Mail) will require all users to switch to an authentication process called OAUTH2.
We have now completed the code and interface required to support OAUTH2 for GMail in Pegasus Mail, and have put it through extensive active testing. The final step in the process was to click the 'Publish App' button in the Google console where I set up the parameters for the Pegasus Mail OAUTH2 code, which submits the application for Google's approval to access live data for all GMail users: I have just done that, and wish I had not.
Google requires app makers to pay for an audit of their app if they want to use it to collect mail from Gmail. Small app companies can't pay what Google wants. I've mostly moved away from Google. I'm now going to be moving away from Gmail.
