Just doing some testing but I think I've found the problem.

On Mon, 7 Dec 2020, 09:47 el Paraguayo, <[email protected]> wrote:

> As an aside, I've also just tried logging in to Gmail via IMAP.
>
> It only worked for me after creating an app password (got error messages
> about invalid credentials before that).
>
> I appreciate that this isn't the issue with the widget but it's still
> interesting (to me, at least!).
>
>
> On Mon, 7 Dec 2020, 09:22 elParaguayo, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Kai,
>>
>> Apologies! I hadn't seen that your email showed that the code worked. My
>> phone just showed your first line "I'm not using it, so I leave that up to
>> OP." and hid the rest.
>>
>> Now that we know it's not a security issue, we can do some more digging.
>>
>> On Monday, 7 December 2020 at 08:00:07 UTC elParaguayo wrote:
>>
>>> I did say it was a guess!
>>>
>>> I haven't used Gmail via IMAP for a very long time and I have seen posts
>>> in other groups where security changes have caused issues.
>>>
>>> However, your experiences are clearly more recent than mine so I think
>>> OP can safely disregard my comment.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, 6 Dec 2020, 21:27 Kai Stian Olstad, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, Dec 06, 2020 at 10:37:19AM -0800, elParaguayo wrote:
>>>> > My guess is this app doesn't work because Google updated security so
>>>> you
>>>> > can't use standard username and password because it's not secure.
>>>> They used
>>>> > to have the ability to allow access to less secure apps but I think
>>>> you now
>>>> > have to generate a separate password for the app. Could be wrong
>>>> though!
>>>>
>>>> I don't understand how you arrived to that conclusion since your
>>>> commands did
>>>> work without the slef. part.
>>>> I also use IMAP against Gmail with offlineimap, Neomutt and Thunderbird
>>>> on a
>>>> daily basis.
>>>>
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