Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey automatic email download after switch to Oauth2

2022-06-03 Thread Matt Connell (Gmail)
On Fri, 2022-06-03 at 12:57 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Would a practical alternative be to have all gmail messages forwarded to > another account? I did this for years before I decided to finally close that google account. Ironically I can't close this one (yet) because the gentoo mailing li

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey automatic email download after switch to Oauth2

2022-06-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 3 June 2022 09:53:22 BST Michael wrote: > On Friday, 3 June 2022 02:45:11 BST Dale wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > Early this morning Seamonkey could no longer fetch emails. It wouldn't > > accept the username and password. I did some searching and it seems > > that Google is disabling plai

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey automatic email download after switch to Oauth2

2022-06-03 Thread Michael
On Friday, 3 June 2022 12:15:53 BST spareproject776 wrote: > How did you even enable the oauth thing ? only had security device or > push to an authenticated device available. Then lied and forced enabling > sms as a 'recovery' option. When I enabled OAuth2 it was early days and Google did not as

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey automatic email download after switch to Oauth2

2022-06-03 Thread spareproject776
On Fri, Jun 03, 2022 at 10:54:06AM +0100, Michael wrote: > On Friday, 3 June 2022 11:07:47 BST spareproject776 wrote: > > They only forced turning 2fa on. > > There used to be a period a few years ago now, when you could enable less > secure app access plus OAuth2 without giving your DOB, mobile

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey automatic email download after switch to Oauth2

2022-06-03 Thread Michael
On Friday, 3 June 2022 11:07:47 BST spareproject776 wrote: > They only forced turning 2fa on. There used to be a period a few years ago now, when you could enable less secure app access plus OAuth2 without giving your DOB, mobile phone 2FA, etc. They have since stopped this. I had enabled OAut

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey automatic email download after switch to Oauth2

2022-06-03 Thread spareproject776
They turned off the ability to use smtp pop3 or imap over cleartext a while ago. They only expose it over tls wrapped ports. Your client wouldn't even be able to get as far as sending it. Also forces SASL which is tldr for echo 'username password'|base64 before sending it. Once you enable 2fa f

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey automatic email download after switch to Oauth2

2022-06-03 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Friday, 3 June 2022 02:45:11 BST Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> Early this morning Seamonkey could no longer fetch emails. It wouldn't >> accept the username and password. I did some searching and it seems >> that Google is disabling plain text username and password. Honestly, >

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey automatic email download after switch to Oauth2

2022-06-03 Thread spareproject776
They only forced turning 2fa on. Once you turn it on click the app password button it generates a 16 character passphrase. Then works exactly the same way it used to. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey automatic email download after switch to Oauth2

2022-06-03 Thread Michael
On Friday, 3 June 2022 02:45:11 BST Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > Early this morning Seamonkey could no longer fetch emails. It wouldn't > accept the username and password. I did some searching and it seems > that Google is disabling plain text username and password. Honestly, > sounds like a good i