[kwlug-disc] Using mutt with oauth2

[William Park]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 03:53:57PM -0400, Mikalai Birukou via kwlug-disc wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 2:22 PM Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc
> > <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org <mailto:kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>> wrote:
> > 
> >     I think Gmail may have disabled user/password login a while ago
> > 
> > No, Gmail still allows user name and password login. I use it for a
> > notification tray widget to let me know that I have unread email.
> > Also allows me to use get-mail to archive my email locally, as well
> > as mutt (though I don't do this often).
> > 
> > Gmail will bug you occasionally that you are using insecure methods
> > and such, but I do ignore them.
> 
> My understanding is that gmail will stop doing this, this year.

Yahoo also from October.

> 
> I open thunderbird to backup my account, username/password isn't
> accepted. I use my own domain with gmail.

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William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>