[sylpheed:37092] Re: Gmail accounts no longer accessible from Sylpheed?

[k0 at trixtar.org]

On Mon, 7 Mar 2022 16:40:51 +0300
Anton Shepelev <anton.txt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jose Luis Gonzalez:
> 
> > I have received an email from Gmail stating that since
> > May 30 I may lose access to applications using a less
> > secure login technology (using only username and
> > password).
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> I join Jose Luis and the other posters in their concern
> about Google's war against decent e-mail clients
> under pretence of caring about their users. If they want to
> support OAUTH, let them, but pray do not drop standard
> existing protocols. Whoever wants better security is free to
> use OATH, whereas those who are satisfied with their current
> clients and protocols shall have the right use them.

Somewhat off topic but gmail account holders may
also be deprived of legitimate information sources
(a form of censure actually). Since a few weeks ago 
my email domain cannot email to gmail accounts at 
all because (as far as I know) google doesn't know 
who owns it.