On March 26, 2017 2:48:26 PM PDT, Boomer <[email protected]> wrote: >Last week I added a Fourth email account to K-9 on my Android phone >running >Nougat and I get an error message for both Fetching and Sending emails. > > The error message said to check out this link >*"https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7126229"* I chose to try the >Troubleshooting steps and* "Allow less secure apps: If you don't use >2-Step >Verification, you might need to allow less secure apps to access your >account." * I turned *OFF* this setting and everything worked all of a >sudden. > >My questions/concerns are, why did I have to do this for this Gmail >account >only? All four (4) of my accounts are Gmail and this is the only one >of >the four I needed to do this. Should I worry about the security of my >email account by turning this setting *OFF*? > >And, last but not least, K-9 has been around a long time and I know >it's >well respected in the Android community. Why isn't it a trusted >Android >email account such as Outlook?
Depending on your account settings, Google enforces different levels of security. It's possible that your issue only comes up on one account because it's security settings are different. Either way, if you have the option to use application-specific passwords, do it. Having 2-factor auth on requires you to use them, but I don't know how non-2fa accounts behave. As for your second question, there's been discussion of this on the list in the past. Basically, Google wants email clients to use their non-standard oAuth login procedure, and brands traditional username-password authentication clients as "less secure." I believe oAuth logins are in the pipeline for K-9, but that feature is not currently implemented. --Sean -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "K-9 Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
