Set up your Passband mailbox

Passband runs a mailbox daemon for you. It reads your Gmail, sorts what matters from what does not, and serves the result to the Passband app, where you archive, label, and reply.

What Google will ask you to approve

Three permissions, on one screen. Passband needs all three, so leave every box checked. If one is missing we will send you back rather than set up a mailbox that half works.

• Read your Gmail (gmail.readonly): every message, every attachment, and your mail settings. This is what the triage runs on.
• Change your Gmail (gmail.modify): archiving and labeling, so the app can act on a message instead of only showing it to you. Permanent deletion is not included and Passband never asks for it.
• Send mail as you (gmail.send): composing and replying from the app. Nothing is ever sent that you did not write and send yourself.

Your mail is read by a daemon that runs only for you, in its own process, with its own database. Signing up means we hold your Google refresh token, encrypted, so that daemon can keep syncing while you are away. If you would rather nobody held it, run Passband yourself: the self-hosted daemon talks to Google directly and our servers are never in the path.