Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Note that connecting to Gmail may require you to set up the account with Gnome-Online-Accounts (GOA) because of recent changes in Google's authentication policies, i.e. just inserting your password in Balsa may not be enough
Bob Goodwin:
Hmm, perhaps there is some problem there? I just assumed that the settings that work for Thunderbird would work for Gmail. I have been using Gmail at times recently due to problems with Wildblue. However it appears Wildblue has straightened out the problems and it is back to normal..
When I dallied with gmail, they were doing per-application passwords. Quite how they identified that a different program was accessing their servers, I do not know (there are various ways of fingerprinting software, from their handshaking routines). Though I can certainly see how they'd easily tell apart a web browser from a mail client.
You had to go into Google accounts and set up an extra login for each application (same account, different pass).