Sending Emails with Gmail in CakePHP Now That OAuth is Required

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Google has announced that starting September 30, 2024, it will require OAuth for sending emails via Gmail, as stated in this support article.

I’m currently using CakePHP 5 and the built-in Cake\Mailer\Mailer class to send emails via Gmail’s SMTP server. With this new requirement, how should I configure CakePHP to authenticate via OAuth instead of using the traditional username/password approach?

  • Are there any existing plugins or libraries that integrate Gmail’s OAuth authentication with CakePHP’s Mailer?
  • What would be the recommended approach for obtaining and refreshing the access tokens within a CakePHP application?
  • Is there an example of a working implementation for sending emails using OAuth in CakePHP?

Any guidance or example code would be greatly appreciated!

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I got it working as a plugin GitHub - toggenation/gmail-email-send: Send email via Gmail API with XOAUTH2 Authentication but it’s been months since I looked at it