[Action Required] Migrate your impacted OAuth out-of-band flow to an alternative method before Oct. 3, 2022

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Google OAuth migration for rclone

Here is what you need to know. TLDR this will only affect you if you need to reconfigure rclone remotely, if you do use rclone 1.58. Here are the details Normal operations You can carry on using your existing rclone.conf - old versions of rclone will keep working just fine. Re-authenticate with google locally If you are making a new config with rclone config, or running rclone config reconnect and answer Y to this question Use auto config? * Say Y if not sure * Say N if you are working …

I think the above thread answers any and all questions.

You don't have to do anything if you use 1.58 or newer. You also don't have to do anything if you use 1.57 or older and don't plan on reconfiguring Rclone remotely.

I never received this email, btw. Is this because I never used remote authentication?