Gmail Access, The Happening
reddit / emacs

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nnreddit-user · 2022-06-07 14:05

Maybe it kicked in worldwide long before, but about an hour ago today
is the first I noticed gmail finally rejecting my "Less Secure Apps"
authentication.

It took me an hour turning on 2FA for all my accounts, then generating
so-called App Passwords and plugging them into my dot.msmtprc and
dot.mbsyncrc.

Sorry if this isn't sufficiently emacs-related.

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markasoftware · 2022-06-07 16:29

not only is your post not sufficiently emacs-related, but it's not
emacs-related whatsoever.

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ntwmbc · 2022-06-07 16:52

Many people use gmail from emacs.

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itistheblurstoftimes · 2022-06-07 17:00

Do you need him to specify that he is using Emacs to read his email?

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markasoftware · 2022-06-07 17:05

Many people read news in emacs. Does that make it appropriate to
discuss world news on the emacs subreddit?

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helpivefallenandican · 2022-06-07 17:25

If they're talking about the mechanism with which they read the news
it's appropriate to discuss that IMO.

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yashasolutions · 2022-06-07 17:34

just to say, it's been like that for a while, sorry you had to find
out this way

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markasoftware · 2022-06-07 17:44

Only if that mechanism is emacs-related.

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helpivefallenandican · 2022-06-07 18:07

msmtp and mbsybc are *go-to tools* for doing this within emacs.

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[deleted] · 2022-06-07 18:31

[removed]

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itistheblurstoftimes · 2022-06-07 18:47

Define "related."

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jsled · 2022-06-08 11:38

Thanks for the "not emacs related" ~~posts~~ reports, folks. But due
to the nature of handling email in emacs, lots of folks are using
solutions like mbsync, so it's sufficiently on-topic here, imho.

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jsled · 2022-06-08 11:39

This has been removed, as posts must relate to emacs.

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mee8Ti6Eit · 2022-06-10 03:38

App password are extremely old and may get deprecated soon.  They are
already deprecated in many Google Workspace/enterprise environments.

The "right" way to authenticate is by using XOAuth.