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From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
To: "Alfonso S. Siciliano" <alf.siciliano@gmail.com>
Cc: Karl Dahlke <eklhad@comcast.net>, edbrowse-dev@edbrowse.org
Subject: Re: gmail nightmare
Date: Fri, 27 May 2022 10:00:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220527150014.GA15697@mail.hallyn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <97cd2f5e-0388-ed74-0954-36af11c848c8@gmail.com>

On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 09:19:15PM +0200, Alfonso S. Siciliano wrote:
> On 5/26/22 20:17, Karl Dahlke wrote:
> > I've been using edbrowse to fetch gmail like forever, on pop3 and imap.
> > I received this email.
> > 
> > ---------------
> > On May 30, you may lose access to apps that are using less secure sign-in technology
> > To help keep your account secure, Google will no longer support the use of
> > third-party apps or devices which ask you to sign in to your Google Account
> > using only your username and password.
> > Instead, you’ll need to sign in using {Sign in with Google} or other more
> > secure technologies, like OAuth 2.0. {Learn more}
> > What do you need to do?
> > Email software, like Outlook 2016 or earlier,
> > has less secure access to your Gmail.
> > Switch to Office 365, Outlook 2019 or newer,
> > or any other email software where you can sign in using Sign in with Google.
> > {Learn more}
> > ---------------
> > 
> > WTF.
> > I obviously can't sign in with google.
> > Someone kindly wrote what to do in the wiki, like this.
> > 
> > ---------------
> > 1. Sign into your Google account.
> > 2. Go to the "security" section.
> > 3. Go to the "app password" section.
> > 4. Generate an app password. Use "Mail" for the app and "Other" for the device (if none of the device descriptions are suitable). Google will generate a password for you to use that is different from your main Google account password.
> > ---------------
> > 
> > That's fine but there is no app password section.
> > I can't find it anywhere.
> > Any ideas?
> > May 30 is coming up fast.
> > 
> > Karl Dahlke
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I got into my Google account now,
> I have "app password" section.
> 
> You can try to enter into your Google account and
> go to
> https://myaccount.google.com/apppasswords
> 
> Then Google will ask your password again.
> In a form you could have 2 multi-choice menu under
> "Select the app and device for which you want to
> generate the app password."
> The menus are "Select App" and "Select Device"
> and later a button "GENERATE".
> 
> Good luck!
> Alfonso

For what it's worth, while the interface for setting the password is a
pain, I do really like that the imap password is now different from
my overall gmail password.


      reply	other threads:[~2022-05-27 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-26 18:17 Karl Dahlke
2022-05-26 19:18 ` baggett
2022-05-26 19:19 ` Alfonso S. Siciliano
2022-05-27 15:00   ` Serge E. Hallyn [this message]

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