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Google fmail goofle drive8/2/2023 ![]() I would suggest that eM Client makes Google Drive attachments a selectable feature, it’s not required to manage the calendar per se. For now, this is a deal breaker until you ask more sensible permissions. Please restrict your permissions to what you really need. But in a business environment, that’s totally unacceptable, and personally, even my personal stuff I wouldn’t want to give an email software full access to ALL of my data. If your drive only has some personal stuff and you don’t mind being disclosed elsewhere, then allow the permission, that’s up to you. That’s like giving the password to your bank account to a store, but asking the store not to use it. The instructions given to restrict eM client from accessing Google Drive are just asking the app politely not to access the data, but it still has full access. ![]() If you grant them, you’ve giving the app FULL ACCESS to ALL of your drive documents, no restrictions. People, please beware of these permissions you’re giving the app as it appears to ask them. Is there a way to prevent eM client from asking those advanced permissions? This is not required by OAuth, I’m a software engineer and that’s BS, it’s really the eM Client that’s asking for that. From the thread, and I want to thank moos for raising this issue bluntly, it really appears that eM client is asking for way too many permissions. I’m trying out eM client, and I’m extremely concerned about FULL google drive access. ![]() It’s normally “shown separately” from the main eM Client access in the Google Security third party apps section. Then go to your Google security and remove eM Client Google Drive access. So if you have allowed Google drive in eM Client attachments and don’t want that option, you can just remove / delete it in the above section. You can see if you have previously added Google Drive for attachments in eM Client via “Menu / Settings / Mail / Attachments”. So if you had previously eg: added Google Drive to eM Client for attachments and the Allow Google drive option maybe “did not appear at that time” to authorise eM Client now may have just prompted you to allow it as detected it. Similar when adding Dropbox, OneDrive etc. The only other thing I can think of is there is an option in V9 where you can add attachments via Google drive but that is usually optional anyway and you still have to allow that if you add it in. ![]() eM Client has supported the same secure Google OAuth sign-in permissions method since version eM Client 7Īs I said above it could just be when that Google account was added previously it didn’t bring up those other normal Google options as it allways does for me when adding a Google account. However someone will update this thread if incorrect. No difference in permissions that I’m aware of when adding Google accounts. Is a change for eM client 9? Does it now asks for extra permissions compared to eM client 8, such as full access to google drive ![]()
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