Google is announcing that in the future, G-Suite accounts will not support LSA (Less Secure Access) account connection functionality. This will put an end to accessing your Gmail account via POP3 or old school IMAP, unless your email client supports OAuth.
Google says: Access to LSAs will be turned off in two stages: 1. June 15, 2020 - Users who try to connect to an LSA for the first time will no longer be able to do so. This includes third-party apps that allow password-only access to Google calendars, contacts, and email via protocols such as CalDAV, CardDAV and IMAP. Users who have connected to LSAs prior to this date will be able to continue using them until usage of all LSAs is turned off. 2. February 15, 2021 - Access to LSAs will be turned off for all G Suite accounts. Email: - If you are using stand-alone Outlook 2016 or earlier, move to Office 365 (a web-based version of Outlook) or Outlook 2019, both of which support OAuth access. Alternatively you can use G Suite Sync for Microsoft Outlook. - If you are using Thunderbird or another email client, re-add your Google Account and configure it to use IMAP with OAuth. - If you are using the mail app on iOS or MacOS, or Outlook for Mac, and use only a password to login, you’ll need to remove and re-add your account. When you add it back, select “sign in with Google” to automatically use OAuth. Net: After this is implemented, G-Suite accounts will no longer have old school POP3 and IMAP support. This isn't a bad thing, of course. But it is a change. And I manage a bunch of deliverability test, spamtrap and seed address accounts that are going to be impacted by this-- my homegrown software used today does not yet have support for OAuth, so I need to decide what I'm going to do. Build an app module that supports OAuth? Move mailboxes to a different provider? Roll my own? Question for the group -- this clearly is being announced for G-Suite accounts. Does anyone know if Gmail.com user accounts are going to lose LSA access as well? Are there other folks out there that will have to make code changes to comply with these changes? TIA for your thoughts. Cheers, Al Iverson -- al iverson // wombatmail // chicago http://www.aliverson.com http://www.spamresource.com _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
