Resurrecting old thread.
Adam Bolte writes:
> The getmail changelog would suggest it is still supported, with the most
> recent release being from late August.
>
> http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/CHANGELOG
Are there any alternatives for getmail? It looks like upstream are not
willing to
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Hi,
On 8/1/20 7:54 am, Brian May wrote:
> Andrew McGlashan writes:
>
>> Application passwords were, arguably, less secure than what you
>> could actually use as a password and you lost the 2FA aspect of
>> the login. So, lots of room for
Andrew McGlashan writes:
> Application passwords were, arguably, less secure than what you could
> actually use as a password and you lost the 2FA aspect of the login.
> So, lots of room for improvement.
No, not really. e.g. if you look at the getmail implementation, it is
still just storing a
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Hi,
On 7/1/20 11:57 am, Adam Bolte wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 06:13:07PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
>> I notice the instructions say "The resulting setup is not more
>> secure than a regular getmailrc with 0600 permissions." - which
>> is no
On Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 06:13:07PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> I notice the instructions say "The resulting setup is not more secure
> than a regular getmailrc with 0600 permissions." - which is no surprise
> really.
As I understand it, there is arguably a *slight* security improvement in
the
Adam Bolte writes:
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 07:39:57AM +1100, Brian May wrote:
>> Is there anything you know of similar to fetchmail? I currently am using
>> fetchmail + notmuch.
>
> If offlineimap isn't your thing, getmail looks like it'll do the job, at
> least at a glance.
Looks like
On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 5:12 PM Brian May wrote:
> email I received from Google today saying that they intend to phase out
> support for username/password authentication for LSA ("less secure
> apps") using protocols such as IMAP, and require using OAuth
> authentication instead.
> I am not
On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 05:21:43PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> Last time I looked, getmail upstream development was dead, and only
> supported Python 2.7. So I switched from getmail to fetchmail. It also
> had problems handling timeout errors from a dead SSL connection, and
> would hang for ever.
>
Ah, thanks for that.
Here's a link to the same announcement on the Google Blog:
https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/12/less-secure-apps-oauth-google-username-password-incorrect.html
It does seem odd that they'd be deprecating App passwords too, but it certainly
sounds like they might be.
"Matt Cengia" writes:
> Hi Brian,
>
> Are you able to provide a quote of this email from Google or any website it
> links to? I don't use Gmail any more, so haven't received it, but am
> interested in its contents.
>
> In particular, does it state it's removing *all* password auth from
> IMAP,
Adam Bolte writes:
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 07:39:57AM +1100, Brian May wrote:
>> Is there anything you know of similar to fetchmail? I currently am using
>> fetchmail + notmuch.
>
> If offlineimap isn't your thing, getmail looks like it'll do the job, at
> least at a glance.
Last time I
Hi Brian,
Are you able to provide a quote of this email from Google or any website it
links to? I don't use Gmail any more, so haven't received it, but am interested
in its contents.
In particular, does it state it's removing *all* password auth from IMAP, or
just that you'd need to use app
On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 07:39:57AM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> Is there anything you know of similar to fetchmail? I currently am using
> fetchmail + notmuch.
If offlineimap isn't your thing, getmail looks like it'll do the job, at
least at a glance.
Adam Bolte writes:
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 05:12:08PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
>> I am not aware of any open source IMAP client software that can use
>> OAuth.
>
> Although I haven't tried yet, I'm pretty sure Thunderbird and
> offlineimap support it.
>
> Thunderbird 38.0beta release notes
On Wed 18 Dec 2019 at 13:00:23 +1100, Adam Bolte wrote:
On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 05:12:08PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
I am not aware of any open source IMAP client software that can use
OAuth.
Although I haven't tried yet, I'm pretty sure Thunderbird and
offlineimap support it.
Thunderbird
On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 05:12:08PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> I am not aware of any open source IMAP client software that can use
> OAuth.
Although I haven't tried yet, I'm pretty sure Thunderbird and
offlineimap support it.
Thunderbird 38.0beta release notes (current version is 68.3.0):
"Michael Verrenkamp" writes:
> While this warning has not been seen universally by users and it
> appears to be in the trail stage, this is a very worrying for the free
> and open internet and the software that we use on it. Essentially the
> software maker, being Google, is able to dictate what
This has some scary implications for free speech, I think.
I assume this means, for example, in the highly unlikely event a politician
breaks their pre-election promises, they can request to have the offending
search results deleted.
For some vivid discussions, see the comments at
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.videosfeature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5nb29nbGUuYW5kcm9pZC52aWRlb3MiXQ..
Some seem pro-DRM, the majority are against.
Lots of people critical of restricted use if you
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