[sylpheed:37089] Re: Gmail accounts no longer accessible from Sylpheed?

[Gene Goldenfeld]

I haven't brought gmail into Sylpheed, but did have to set up two-step
authentification to see those emails in Mailwasher. It meant changing
the incoming server type to imap and address to imap.gmail.com and
then generating a new password in the program for gmail.

The instructions for doing that on the Google side were the following
(I assume just replace Mailwasher with Sylpheed):

1. Go to your Google Account.
NOTE: If you see the line App passwords under 2-Step Verification then
this is already setup, therefore skip to part 9.
2. Click Security and then Click 2-Step Verification
3. Click Get Started
4. Enter your Gmail password if it's not already saved and click Next
5. Select your device and press Continue
6. Enter your phone number and click Send
7. You'll receive a text message from Google with a number which looks
like G-123456. Only enter the number part (eg. 123456) in to the part
where it says Enter the code. Click Next.
8. Check everything looks correct and click Turn on.
9. Click App passwords.
10. Enter your Gmail password if it's not already saved and click Next
11. In the drop down menu choose Mail
12. Select device Other (Custom name)
13. Type MailWasher as the name and click Generate
14. Your password for MailWasher will be generated
15. Enter your new app password in to MailWasher and click Save

Gene


On Fri, 4 Mar 2022 22:21:03 +0100
Javier <sylfiger at gmx.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 4 Mar 2022 05:05:30 -0800
> Alan Ianson <agianson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I am going to have to go down that road too.. probably should have
> > done it years ago but now we have to do it.
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> all of us who use Gmail.
> 
> 
> > I think Imap4 is going to be the way forward.
> 
> 
> No, IMAP is just a protocol for access/retrieval/management to/of
> mails as it is POP.
> 
> What Google is enforcing is the authentication protocol: OAuth.
> 
> Instead of sending username and password with other authentication
> protocols (AUTH LOGIN, AUTH PLAIN, etc), you/your mail client use a
> key, that is sent to an authentication server, that then sends back a
> token, that then is used to access the mail server.
> 
> All in name of supposed better security...
> 
> 
> 
> > On Fri, 4 Mar 2022 12:20:44 +0100
> > José Luis González <bugs.jlg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > > If I'm not wrong, this is the method I am using to access my Gmail
> > > accounts from Sylpheed. I wonder if there is a better method that
> > > is not going to be dropped, or if it is planned to be implemented
> > > any soon.
> 
> 
> Only Hiroyuki would tell.
> 
> 
> 
> So there are two options, or stop using Gmail (and probably, soon,
> Hotmail/Outlook, and maybe, later, Yahoo/AOL (despite these
> implemented an app password months ago)), or switch to another mail
> client that supports OAuth authentication. What, anyway, is not
> available on Sylpheed.
> 
> 
> Those are the options.
> 
> Regards.