Bob Newell wrote: >> So I don't understand. I am able to use seamonkey and claws-mail with an >> app password, and it used to work with gnus. I am using ssl on port 993. > Maybe it's obvious, but just to be sure I understand your > setup: > > 1. You have 2-factor authentication turned on. > 2. You are using your app password within gnus, not your gmail > login password. > 3. Claws/seamonkey are using the app password, not the > login password. > > (My own setup is like Adam, without 2-factor, so I use my > login password.) > > But there are two other things going on. Gmail is in the > process of completely disabling "less secure" in all > forms. (I've posted about this before.) The first stage is > that the "less secure apps" setting can't be turned on any > longer if it wasn't already on. > > The second stage, to come in about a year IIRC, will be to > drop the app passwords and require use of Oauth2. That one > will cause some irritating work for many of us. (As an > occasional user of mutt, it will be especially annoying.) > It looks like they suspended this:
https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2020/03/less-secure-app-turn-off-suspended.html because of some virus or other. _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
