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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to set up claws mail
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 09:15:32
Message-Id: 79424014.n2H4tcoMog@peak
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How to set up claws mail by Mick
1 On Thursday, 19 October 2017 19:15:05 BST Mick wrote:
2 > On Thursday, 19 October 2017 18:27:41 BST Neil Bothwick wrote:
3 > > On Thu, 19 Oct 2017 10:56:18 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
4 > > > Yes, I have all those set right. The first thing I did was to go
5 > > > through all the Configuration dialogues and put values in.
6 > >
7 > > Screenshots please!
8 >
9 > Could it be your mail provider is using OAUTH2 like Gmail does? If so you
10 > will need to tweak Google's (your ISP's) security settings to allow
11 > non-OAuth authentication mechanisms, or look into obtaining an OAuth
12 > token and use this instead of your normal login passwd.
13
14 I don't think that can be it, because there's no sign of authentication
15 failure in the log. This is the whole log of an attempt to fetch mail:
16
17 [09:55:57] * message: Account 'Internet Incoming': Connecting to POP3
18 server: mail.zen.co.uk:995...
19 [09:55:57] POP3< +OK smarthost03a, Zen Internet POP3 Server Ready
20 [09:55:57] POP3> USER <me>@zen.co.uk
21 [09:55:57] POP3< +OK Please enter your pass, with the PASS command.
22 [09:55:57] POP3> PASS ********
23 [09:55:57] POP3< +OK Logged in.
24 [09:55:57] POP3> STAT
25 [09:55:58] POP3< +OK 0 0
26 [09:55:58] POP3> QUIT
27 [09:55:58] POP3< +OK Goodbye. See you again sometime :)
28
29 --
30 Regards,
31 Peter.

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[gentoo-user] Re: How to set up claws mail Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>