[sylpheed:37321] Re: Prevented from switching gmail account to POP3

[G.A. L.F.]

Apologies to Gene, the correct spelling of his name is Goldenfeld, not
Goldenfield.

-G

On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 3:27 PM G.A. L.F. <the.real.galf at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I does not matter much, as GMail will stop working with normal e-mail
> client as of September the 30th.
>
> Recently someone (who may or may not work at Google, it wasn't clear)
> pointed out to me that the use of Google's App passwords *SHOULD* be a work
> around to the upcomin OAuth2 mail-client requirement.  Afterwards I did
> some digging around and found that a couple of years ago Gene Goldenfield
> here on the Sylpheed list enumerated the instructions for setting up App
> Passwords:
>
> https://www.sraoss.jp/pipermail/sylpheed/2022-March/007035.html
>
> After the September 30th cutoff date I plan on trying App Passwords first,
> and if they fail to work as described I'll make the jump to an alternate
> provider.
>
> Warm regards all...
> -Galf
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 3:08 AM Anton Shepelev <anton.txt at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> José Luis González:
>>
>> > Now I can't even switch my IMAP gmail account to POP3?
>>
>> I does not matter much, as GMail will stop working with normal e-mail
>> client as of September the 30th. You had better find a better e-mail
>> provider:
>>
>>    Large commercial-owned:
>>       https://account.mail.ru/signup
>>       https://yandex.com/support/mail/reg.html
>>       https://mail.rambler.ru/
>>
>>    Independent:
>>       https://freeshell.de/
>>       http://www.tilde.club/
>>       https://sdf.org/
>>       https://blinkenshell.org
>>
>> and a good IMAP migration tool:
>>
>>    <https://imapsync.lamiral.info/X/>
>>    <https://github.com/imapsync>
>>    <
>> https://www.geekersdigest.com/how-to-sync-or-migrate-mails-from-an-imap-account/
>> >
>>
>>