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asamahy
Aug 25, 2024

A friend asked me how to run this tool in the background to refresh every 45 minutes. this is a launchagent working as of macOS Sonoma 14.6.1.

A LaunchAgent for a single account: (or one per account)

  1. Place imapsync in /usr/local/bin/oauth2_imap (this is required to run an executable without disabling sip).
  2. Run the perl script once to generate the token file token/, or place the file there if you already have it.
  3. Create a an empty file in ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ named com.imapsync.gmail.plist.
  4. Paste the following inside and change according to the email account and token file location:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>KeepAlive</key>
    <false/>
 <key>Label</key>
 <string>com.imapsync.gmail</string>
 <key>LaunchOnlyOnce</key>
 <false/>
<key>WorkingDirectory</key>
<string>/usr/local/bin/oauth2_imap</string>
 <key>ProgramArguments</key>
 <array>
  <string>/usr/local/bin/oauth2_imap/oauth2_imap</string>
   <string>--token_file</string>
   <string>/usr/local/bin/oauth2_imap/tokens/oauth2_tokens_USER@MAILPROVIDER.com.txt</string>
   <string>USER@MAILPROVIDER.com</string>
   <string>--provider</string>
   <string>MAILPROVIDER</string>
 </array>
 <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
 <string>/tmp/imapsync.gmail.log</string>
 <key>StandardOutPath</key>
 <string>/tmp/imapsync.gmail-stdout.log</string>
  <key>StartInterval</key>
  <integer>2700</integer>
</dict>
</plist>
  1. In Terminal type this command launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.imapsync.gmail.plist then launchctl start ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.imapsync.gmail.plist
  2. That's it, you're done.

For Multiple Account (using a shellscript):

same steps 1-3

  1. Paste the following inside and change according to the script name and location:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
 <key>KeepAlive</key>
 <false/>
 <key>Label</key>
 <string>com.imapsync.gmail</string>
 <key>LaunchOnlyOnce</key>
 <false/>
<key>WorkingDirectory</key>
<string>/usr/local/bin/oauth2_imap</string>
 <key>ProgramArguments</key>
 <array>
    <string>/bin/bash</string>
    <string>/usr/local/bin/oauth2_imap/oauth2_gmail.sh</string>
 </array>
 <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
 <string>/tmp/imapsync.gmail.log</string>
 <key>StandardOutPath</key>
 <string>/tmp/imapsync.gmail-stdout.log</string>
  <key>StartInterval</key>
  <integer>2700</integer>
</dict>
</plist>
  1. Create an empty file named oauth2_gmail.sh inside /usr/local/bin/oauth2_imap.
  2. Paste the following inside the oauth2_gmail.sh and change the field according to your accounts:
#!/usr/bin/env bash

./oauth2_imap --token_file   tokens/oauth2_tokens_USER@MAILPROVIDER.com   USER@MAILPROVIDER.com
  1. In Terminal type this command launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.imapsync.gmail.plist then launchctl start ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.imapsync.gmail.plist
  2. That's it, you're done.
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gilleslamiral
Aug 25, 2024
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This is all Greek to me but thanks Amr!
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