Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Google pop3 authentication failure
On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 10:26:55PM -, Grant Edwards wrote > > AFAIK, you've got two choices. > > 1. Use an "app password" > > https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833 > > https://www.lifewire.com/get-a-password-to-access-gmail-by-pop-imap-2-1171882 > > 2. Use OAUTH 2.0 > > https://developers.google.com/gmail/imap/xoauth2-protocol > https://oauth.net/2/ I looked at those instructions and also at setting up mutt, which I currently use. Clear as mud. After scratching my head for several minutes, I really wanted to scrap my Gmail account altogether, but it might screw up some other stuff I do with Google. I very rarely use Gmail, and I do know how to access Gmail via web browser. So I commented the Gmail stanza out of my .fetchmailrc and I'll use web browser to access Gmail. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
[gentoo-user] Re: Google pop3 authentication failure
On 2022-06-29, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 02:47:16PM +, spareproject776 wrote >> >> They flushed all the app password creds and forced 2fa. >> Need to go through the accounts.google.com login to recover. > > Sorry for the delay responding. I can login fine with my password on > accounts.google.com but it does not work on pop.gmail.com. Google disabled the use of normal passwords for IMAP and POP authentication a year or so back. [These days I say "a year or so back" that could be anything from 5 months to about 5 years. I think "a couple years ago" now averages at about 7. "Five or six years ago" reaches back to the end of the Clinton adminstration.] > What exactly do I have to do to get it working again? AFAIK, you've got two choices. 1. Use an "app password" https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833 https://www.lifewire.com/get-a-password-to-access-gmail-by-pop-imap-2-1171882 2. Use OAUTH 2.0 https://developers.google.com/gmail/imap/xoauth2-protocol https://oauth.net/2/ AIUI, the latter is considered more secure. But, a lot of applications don't support OAUTH 2.0 (or if they do, it's via a complex plugin/helper scheme). For mutt I looked into OAUTH, and it can be done with some external helper applications. Creating an app password for mutt to use with IMAP was much easier. -- Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Google pop3 authentication failure
On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 02:47:16PM +, spareproject776 wrote > > They flushed all the app password creds and forced 2fa. > Need to go through the accounts.google.com login to recover. Sorry for the delay responding. I can login fine with my password on accounts.google.com but it does not work on pop.gmail.com. What exactly do I have to do to get it working again? -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
