On Mon, 2022-06-20 at 16:07 -0400, George Avrunin wrote:
In june gmail turn off the legacy password access via pop3 in my account,
but I found turning on 2-step verification in the security section of my gmail account, enabled the app password option, a 16 character password to use instead of the legacy password in my getmail's pop3 download
thunderbird seems to know how to setup it oauth2 to sending mails via gmail
regards,
Gabriel
Thanks. Unfortunately, my university GMail account is part of GSuites, or whatever they're calling it now, and even though I can create an app password, it won't work for logging in to read mail. This seems to be a campus-wide setting that the university IT people have made. They are requiring OAUTH2, which uses the campus authentication system, so I won't be able to get claws-mail to work with my university account even with 2-step verification and an app password.
I have a Google Workplace, formerly G Suite, account run by my former university (I'm now retired) and access it via Evolution, which does fully support OAUTH2.
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