In <news:[email protected]>, Rick Merrill <[email protected]> wrote:
> - http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=2852231 > > I just ran into this and could not receive gmail via SeaMonkey. The > solution in my case was to enable "less secure apps". > > Can anyone explain what this is all about? By default, Google only accepts OAuth 2.0 authentication. Enabling access by what Google calls "less secure apps" just lets you (or your SeaMonkey) use other methods of secure authentication to log in to your Gmail account. Except for Google itself, I don't think there's anyone claiming that using authentication methods other than OAuth 2.0 reduces security. It's widely believed that Google made OAuth 2.0 the only method available by default simply to try to force people to use Google products to connect to Gmail; I dunno. I'm not sure I've explained any better than the people in that Mozillazine thread, but I hope that helped some. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
