>>> "ESF" == 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.

Thanks, when we started with gmail, I tried out dovecot, and there was a
problem, that it started to download every message over and over when I
tried to download new email, besides it fill up my hard disk with
additional 13 GB and that I would like to avoid. But maybe this will be
the only way.

Uwe 


> eric

> Footnotes:
> [1]  http://davmail.sourceforge.net/

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