I have used net/imap with gmail, though it does require enabling "less
secure apps" (the link George sent has instructions). I believe the only
"less secure" part is that you want to use IMAP for authentication and not
OAuth.

-Philip

On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 7:55 AM, George Neuner <gneun...@comcast.net> wrote:

>
> On 2/11/2017 7:04 AM, Tim Hanson wrote:
>
> I have successfully connected to two of the mail servers I use this way, but 
> not yet to gmail. Has anyone successfully connected to gmail using either of 
> the approaches tested here? Maybe someone can point out what I'm doing wrong?
>
>
> I haven't messed with IMAP.  I have successfully used SMTP and POP with
> gmail.
>
> (I remember gmail was finicky a while back when I tried connecting to it 
> using Thunderbird; at some point it broke, with google warning some insecure 
> app was trying to access my mail (same thing happens with my racket attempts 
> so far). I was later able to connect after sufficiently upgrading 
> Thunderbird. (More at 
> https://support.mozilla.org/t5/Set-up-email/Thunderbird-and-Gmail/ta-p/14181)).
>
>
> See:   https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255
>
>
> George
>
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