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On 2022-06-29, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 02:47:16PM +0000, spareproject776 wrote |
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>> They flushed all the app password creds and forced 2fa. |
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>> Need to go through the accounts.google.com login to recover. |
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> Sorry for the delay responding. I can login fine with my password on |
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> accounts.google.com but it does not work on pop.gmail.com. |
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Google disabled the use of normal passwords for IMAP and POP |
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authentication a year or so back. |
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[These days I say "a year or so back" that could be anything from 5 |
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months to about 5 years. I think "a couple years ago" now averages at |
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about 7. "Five or six years ago" reaches back to the end of the |
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Clinton adminstration.] |
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> What exactly do I have to do to get it working again? |
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AFAIK, you've got two choices. |
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1. Use an "app password" |
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https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833 |
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https://www.lifewire.com/get-a-password-to-access-gmail-by-pop-imap-2-1171882 |
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2. Use OAUTH 2.0 |
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https://developers.google.com/gmail/imap/xoauth2-protocol |
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https://oauth.net/2/ |
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AIUI, the latter is considered more secure. But, a lot of applications |
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don't support OAUTH 2.0 (or if they do, it's via a complex |
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plugin/helper scheme). For mutt I looked into OAUTH, and it can be |
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done with some external helper applications. Creating an app password |
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for mutt to use with IMAP was much easier. |
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Grant |