[sylpheed:37323] Re: Prevented from switching gmail account to POP3

[Gene Goldenfeld]

I’m going to top post here because it’s too much hassle sorting this on an iPad Mini with stylus.

G, Thanks for that. A lot of my school teachers got it wrong, and once I had an interview at a major bank that wanted to hire me, but with my resume under his nose the big boss didn’t get it right once in 45 minutes. Attention to detail…

Ok, back to the discussion…I’m not sure the Google instructions actually work. They seemed to at first, since then at Mailwasher Pro, which I use for convenience as an email filter, nobody has been able to get it to work, even when Gmail’s server confirms the parameters in MWP’s settings. That is, test email never arrives…except in the Gmail account.

Gene

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On Thu, Jul 25, 2024, at 4:29 PM, G.A. L.F. wrote:
> 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.
>>

>>>    <https://github.com/imapsync>
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>>> https://www.geekersdigest.com/how-to-sync-or-migrate-mails-from-an-imap-account/
>>> >
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