Re: gmail nightmare

["Alfonso S. Siciliano" <alf.siciliano@gmail.com>]

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.
> 
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> 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}
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> 
> WTF.
> I obviously can't sign in with google.
> Someone kindly wrote what to do in the wiki, like this.
> 
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> 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.
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> 
> 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