Re: gmail+imap+smtp (oauth2)

[Bob Newell <bobnewell@bobnewell.net>]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Monday,  2 May 2022 at 08:45, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>> There have been some discussion, either on emacs-devel or here, how to
>> make emacs (gnus) work with gmail under those circumstances, that is
>> using oauth2.
>
> Uwe,
>
> I had the same problem with our institution which uses Exchange and
> moved to multi-factor authentication, i.e. oauth2.  I solved this
> problem by using davmail [1].  I don't know if this will work for gmail
> as well but you may wish to try.

I don't see how to make davmail work with gmail, as it's
intended for Exchange. But I have not investigated deeply.

The option I intend to try when the time comes (I have a
Workspace account and the deadline hasn't been announced yet)
is app passwords. These are available if you're willing to put
up with the initial hassle of two-factor authentication.
Fortunately you can mark a device as trusted and only have to
deal with the two-factor authentication one time per device.

I have read accounts of how to make oauth2 work natively with
gnus, but I haven't tried it and it seemed "complex and
wonderful" so I'm going to try app passwords first.

-- 
Bob Newell
Honolulu, Hawai`i

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