How do I grant my Google Cloud service account access to G Suite?

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I have a Google Cloud Platform service account that I want to enable to read the emails of my G Suite account. However, when I follow the prescribed procedure of authorizing the service account as a client in the G Suite admin interface (Security -> Manage API client access), the form fails with the error 'This client name has not been registered with Google yet.'. I supply the client ID of my service account key file for client name.

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What am I supposed to supply for client name, so that it works?

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When creating the service account, one has to enable "Google Apps domain-wide delegation" if it is to access G Suite. It was kind of poorly explained in the Google documentation. Otherwise my procedure was correct, one is supposed to use the client_id field from the credentials JSON file.