On Mon, 27 May 2024, Steve Litt via Alpine-info wrote:
Karen Lewellen said on Sun, 26 May 2024 22:14:14 -0400 (EDT)
Chime,
I still agree with some others.
Speaking personally, the most efficient way to interface gmail with
alpine
is to use Imap create an app password specifically for alpine, and
configure accordingly.
Although there are steps, once done, my own gmail account works just
fine with Alpine.
granted, I am using ssh to reach the mail server where alpine is
configured, but it works.
Karen
If you can use Alpine to view email on gmail's IMAP server, then you
can use fetchmail and procmail to load your own Dovecot server from any
old IMAP or POP3, and view your emails there (much faster and more
reliably). And you can back them up.
Alpine officially supports OAUTH2 with GMail. I don't know about procmail,
but fetchmail officially *does not* support OAUTH2 with GMail.
This is a fair amount of work but I think it's easier than keeping up
with all gmail's ongoing inconvenient changes.
To be fair I think there is only the one inconvenient change
(from standard passwords (aka insecure apps) to OAUTH-BEARER)
but it was originally scheduled for 2019 and has been put back many times.
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Andrew C. Aitchison Kendal, UK
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