On 08/12/2015 18:29, cinder wrote: > Woops! Sorry, I miss read the post. It had nothing to with me. I'm not > used to reading mail in a terminal:) I'll have to figure out how to get > rid of the advetisingr, or maybe thats the deal with a free account:( > > Philip Webb wrote: >> Mutt should not be a security risk ! > > I don't doubt mutt for a moment:) > > »Q« wrote: >> Gmail by default locks out any client that doesn't use OAuth 2.0, >> which AIUI is most of them. Somewhere in Gmail's web interface is a >> setting to allow other clients to connect. IIRC the text is something >> like "allow less secure clients to connect to your Gmail account". > > I thought there might be a way. But seems kinda unfreindly. Maybe I'll > have to that if I can't get rid the add stuck on the end of my mail.
Allow me to translate the Google-speak: "less secure mail app" really means "a really shitty auth method that isn't our (Google's) auth method". So click the (rather well-hidden) button in Gmail's interface and go back to the really shitty auth method we all used just fine for 10+ years already. -- Alan McKinnon [email protected]
