On Wednesday, 6 November 2019 17:04:10 GMT Jack wrote: > On 2019.11.06 11:30, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > A recent message prompted me to try creating a google mail account > > again, to collect my gmail.com email, but it still says "This app is not > > yet authorised..." (I think that's the wording). > > > > Is there anything a mere user can do to expedite closing this hole? > > It's been open for some months now. > > If you mean that's the message your local email app is getting from > gmail when trying to retrieve messages, I suspect it's the "less secure > application" issue. If that's the case, then you either need to use > OAUTH2 to authorize your mail client to Google, or else set the "OK to > use less secure applications" through the settings through the gmail > web interface. gmail simply calls any mail client which does not use > OAUTH2 to be "less secure." > > If that's not the case, then we need a few more details about what's > going on.
No, it's what Google's authentication screen says. My local email app is KMail, as I said. I used the Create Account wizard in KMail, gave my credentials, entered the confirmation code from my mobile and was told: "Sign in with Google temporarily disabled for this app "This app has not yet been verified by Google in order to use Google Sign in" I tried again, but creating a Custom Account. Some of the authentication Methods offered by KMail are not usable with GMail; others get a refusal from Google: "Application-specific password required." There's no mention of oauth2 in any dialogue. -- Regards, Peter.
