Google gmail cutting off alpine

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Hi,
If someone can point us to the branch of fetchmail that can handle oauth2, 
one can use that with alpine.
Regards, Willem



On Thu, 26 May 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> I really, really hope the Alpine developers can find a fix for this.
>
>
> I am rather partial to living on a console for as much as I can, but with 
> Gmail and Alpine breaking, it would be rather difficult, unless I would want 
> to find an alternative solution, which I am not, simply because I have quite 
> a few mailing lists subscribe to the gmail, and I'm lazy..
>
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Brandt Steenkamp
>
> Sent using Thunderbird from the Slint laptop
>
> On 2022/05/26 13:53, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>> unsure if thunderbird can do it via oauth also.
>> 
>> 
>> Yes. I've been able to use Thunderbird in that way with Gmail for some 
>> time. It redirects to Google and asks me to allow the application instead 
>> of getting a username and password. This of course is specific to 
>> Thunderbird though, and I can't remember if Seamonkey works the same way. 
>> That said, I do seem to recall Evolution redirecting to Google in much the 
>> same way, so it may still work also. Doesn't solve the text-based client 
>> issues, but if Alpine in fact has figured out a fix, that would in fact 
>> solve the problem there.
>> 
>> ~Kyle
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