On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 5:12 PM Brian May <br...@linuxpenguins.xyz> wrote:

> email I received from Google today saying that they intend to phase out
> support for username/password authentication for LSA ("less secure
> apps") using protocols such as IMAP, and require using OAuth
> authentication instead.
> I am not aware of any open source IMAP client software that can use
> OAuth.
>

I've been using OAuth with Thunderbird for IMAP to gmail, as my workplace
has been enforcing that and disabled app password access. I vaguely
remember having to upgrade Thunderbird or something to get it going.

Glenn
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