Jonathan Wheelhouse <[email protected]> writes: > Hi > > I have successfully been accessing my gmail account via IMAP from GNUS. > Recently, however I enabled 2 factor authentication on my gmail account > after reading > http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/04/make-your-email-hacker-proof.html
[snip] > > With 2 factor authentication you can get gmail to generate an > application specific password. So I did that for GNUS. I entered this > password into ~/.imap-authinfo file. Here are the relevant bits of the > .gnus and .imap-authinfo files. > > The message I get is this: > > Warning: Opening nnimap server on gmail...failed: NO (ALERT) > Application-specific password required: > http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer=185833 > (Failure); > > Any ideas on how to fix this? Never mind, I fixed it. GNUS was getting my credentials from an ~/.authinfo file and ignoring the ~/.imap-authinfo file. So I stuck the application specific password in the authinfo file. I can now read my gmail via GNUS again. -- Jonathan _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
