read-only access to gmail

[aa755]

I am concerned about the possibility of losing data due to possible bugs in gmvault. Most likely there aren't such bugs, but I only wish to use gmvault to backup my email and would therefore, by the principle of least privilege, would prefer that gmvault only request read-only permission to gmail.

Is there a way to configure gmvault to only request read-only permissions?

[tobbez]

Auth scope doesn't seem to be configurable, but you could try setting

scope=https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.readonly

in src/gmv/gmvault_const.py of your copy of gmvault.

[aa755]

I get an error after entering the google-generated code in gmvault:

Connect to Gmail server.

ERROR: Invalid credentials, cannot login to the gmail server. Please check your login and password or xoauth token.

[gaubert]

@aa755 @tobbez Gmvault doesn't ever delete emails in the mailbox box (only pull or push emails).

[gaubert]

I could consider it as a feature but it makes the setup much more complete.