From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 32142 invoked from network); 27 May 2022 15:00:29 -0000 Received: from hurricane.the-brannons.com (2602:ff06:725:1:20::25) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 27 May 2022 15:00:29 -0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by hurricane.the-brannons.com (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 7d7bb822 for ; Fri, 27 May 2022 08:00:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.hallyn.com (mail.hallyn.com [178.63.66.53]) by hurricane.the-brannons.com (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPS id d212a70b (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO) for ; Fri, 27 May 2022 08:00:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.hallyn.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B20D788F; Fri, 27 May 2022 10:00:14 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 27 May 2022 10:00:14 -0500 From: "Serge E. Hallyn" To: "Alfonso S. Siciliano" Cc: Karl Dahlke , edbrowse-dev@edbrowse.org Subject: Re: gmail nightmare Message-ID: <20220527150014.GA15697@mail.hallyn.com> References: <20220426141731.eklhad@comcast.net> <97cd2f5e-0388-ed74-0954-36af11c848c8@gmail.com> X-BeenThere: edbrowse-dev@edbrowse.org List-Id: Edbrowse Development List MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <97cd2f5e-0388-ed74-0954-36af11c848c8@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) 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.