Job Cannon ingests job-alert emails from your Gmail inbox over IMAP using a Google App Password — a one-purpose, 16-character password you generate for this app. We never see or store your Google account password.
{# Google-UI instructions — verified 2026-06; re-verify against a no-2FA
test account before each release (see the release checklist). #}
{# Google-UI instructions — verified 2026-06 (single App-name field + Create
button; the old Mail / Other-device dropdowns are gone). Re-verify before
each release. #}
Why am I doing this?
Job Cannon reads job-alert emails (LinkedIn, Glassdoor, ZipRecruiter, etc.) from your inbox over IMAP using a Google-issued one-purpose password. The password is stored in your OS keyring (Windows Credential Manager / macOS Keychain) — not in any plaintext file we can read, and never sent off your machine.