Google gmail cutting off alpine

[Linux for blind general discussion]

hi,
I believe? the alpine developers came up with a solution for this?
I am on the Alpine developers list, even though I do not use the program 
over much.
may be worth contacting them though,
Karen



On Wed, 25 May 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> hi
> yes google are removing all  user/password authenticaion apps.
> that  wil include mutt fetchmail et al.
>
> they ar egoing oauth only.
> i seem to recollect that at the moment there are app passwords still allowed after may 30th.
>
> so if u use 2fa u can get an app password foe mutt fetchmail and so on.
> there isa branch of fetchmail that wil do the oath thing, dunno about mutt.
>
> unsure if thunderbird can do it via oauth also.
>
> in short anyting that goes via username/password to access smtp for outgoing mail or imap /pop for incomming mail wont be allowed.
>
> what u can do for incomming mail only is doa pop3 forward to a mail provider that does allow username/password, and access that via mutt.
> other than that u got to figure out a way to do it via oauth.
>
> yes its pita but google are google!
>
> ta
> neil foster
>
>
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>> Has	 there been any notification for mutt users also; that at the end of may it too can not access gmail accounts?
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