go-xoauth2

Go library for generating strings for use in the XOAUTH2 authentication scheme, implemented by Google's Gmail IMAP and SMTP servers for OAuth2 authentication.

Usage

import (
       "xoauth2"
)

...

// returns unencoded string
xoauth2.OAuth2String("alice", "some-access-token")

// returns base64-encoded XOAUTH2 string, suitable for direct use in SASL XOAUTH2
xoauth2.XOAuth2String("alice", "some-access-token")

More information

See the XOAUTH2 protocol documentation for more information: https://developers.google.com/google-apps/gmail/xoauth2_protocol#the_sasl_xoauth2_mechanism