Re: Email Client

[Frank McCormick]

On 6/10/19 6:42 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Mon, 2019-06-10 at 22:42 +0100, Douglas G Mckendrick via users
> wrote:
> > Evening all,
> > I'm after setting up an email client, I've tried thunderbird for my gmail
> > account, but I get a google complaint about the client not being secure
> > enough.  Is there another recommended email client?  Or can we make
> > thunderbird more secure to pass the google checks?
>
> I use Evolution myself (with two Google accounts including this one)
> but Thunderbird should work perfectly well. It would be useful to see
> the exact error message you're getting, but note that if you have 2FA
> configured for the account you may need to use the Gnome Online
> Accounts widget to set it up.
>
> poc

There are ways around the problem. I use Thunderbird all the time.
This is from Googles help page:

Change account access for less secure apps
To help keep Google Accounts through work, school, or other groups more 
secure, we block some less secure apps from using them. If you have this 
kind of account, you’ll see a "Password incorrect" error when trying to 
sign in. If so, you have two options:

Option 1: Install a more secure app that uses stronger security 
measures. All Google products, like Gmail, use the latest security measures.
Option 2: Change your settings to allow less secure apps into your 
account. We don't recommend this option because it can make it easier 
for someone to break into your account. If you want to allow access 
anyway, follow these steps:
Go to your Google Account.
On the left navigation panel, click Security.
On the bottom of the page, in the Less secure app access panel, click 
Turn on access.
  If you don't see this setting, your administrator might have turned 
off less secure app account access.
If you still can't sign in to your account, learn more about the 
"password incorrect" error.
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