Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	"Anna “CyberTailor”" <cyber@×××××.in>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] Google and "fetchmail" + "ssmtp"
Date:	Thu, 17 Mar 2022 16:57:57
Message-Id:	`YjNoiSCIk11lnC04@sysrq.in`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] Google and "fetchmail" + "ssmtp" by Dr Rainer Woitok

1	On 2022-03-17 17:51, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
2	> Some time after I had all set up, Google started nagging about my not-
3	> so-secure access to my mail account via just userid and password. Up to
4	> now I simply ignored that. But now Google told me to only allow "Sign
5	> in with Google" or OAuth 2.0 after 2022-05-30.
6
7	You need to obtain an application password.
8	https://support.google.com/mail/answer/185833
9
10	Or stop using gmail ;)