Hi Alan; Are you using Mailplane 2.5? If so, due to some Google changes, Mailplane doesn't support 2 factor authentication very well any more (as you can tell!) If you want to use 2 factor auth., you could try Mailplane 3.0. (It does require Lion or Mountain Lion, OS X).
You can get it here: http://beta.mailplaneapp.com<http://beta.mailplaneapp.com> If you are indeed on 3.0, please let me know! *Jessica* Customer Support Ninja http://mailplaneapp.com/ On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Alan Hoyle <[email protected]> wrote: > I use the Two Factor authentication to access my regular Gmail account. > Mailplane has problems with this. > > First of all, the Mailplane FAQ for two-factor auth should also include a > link to the generic Google auth-generation page. Here is the link: > > https://accounts.google.com/b/0/IssuedAuthSubTokens > > That said, the application-specific passwords it generates don't actually > work in this context. > > I have created an application-specific password for Mailplane. If I enter > that into the password field, when I try to reset my Gmail session, it > pops up another login screen saying "Please use your account password > instead of an application-specific password." This accepts my regular > password and then prompts me for an Authenticator number before it lets me > in. I've attached a screenshot of the login screen with the account > blurred. > > If, rather, I try to put my regular Google account password in there, > Mailplane won't log in and prompts me repeatedly to generate an > application-specific password. Which, as reported above, won't actually > let me log into my Gmail without manual intervention. > > It appears that the application specific password acceptor is smart enough > to know that it could use the standard password scheme and forces it to > work that way. > > Google's two-factor auth may have changed somewhat since this was > originally implemented, and now includes the ability to designate a browser > as "trusted" (I presume it saves a cookie.) (screenshot attached.) > > -alan > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "mailplaneapp" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mailplaneapp/-/EUu8rJKfPe8J. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/mailplaneapp?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mailplaneapp" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mailplaneapp?hl=en.
