On 4/13/2016 11:10 AM, »Q« wrote:
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.
It felt like Gmail was saying "mozilla/seamonkey" was an insecure
'device'.
I have not heard of OAuth 2.0 - an open standard - is it not
compatible with seamonkey?
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