How to adjust to google notice about you may lose access to some of your third-party apps

[Zak Smith]

On Sat, Mar 05, 2022 at 04:42:39PM -0700, Baszler wrote:
> On 3/4/22 23:06, Stephen Warren wrote:
> > On 3/4/22 20:52, Zak Smith wrote:
> > > On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 12:59:28PM -0800, MikePruz wrote:
> > > > NCLUG,
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone understand the google change referenced below and
> > > > what if anything needs to be done in advance to avoid
> > > > interruption of service?
> > > >
> > >
> > > I use almost the exact same software setup and I have the same
> > > questions.  I figured I'd have to dedicate a day to it in the next
> > > month or so.  If anyone already has answers that would be awesome.
> > > I'm using OfflineIMAP 7.1.5 and msmtp 1.6.6, or thereabouts, on a
> > > variety of machines.
> >
> > You may be able to set up an "application-specific password" rather than
> > going the full OAuth 2 route; see:
> >
> > https://myaccount.google.com/apppasswords
> >
> > I'm not sure if those are going away, or just apps that sign in with
> > your main password.
>
>
> If it is not clear, Google is pushing everyone to a 2-factor
> authentication.   We went through this at work a few months back (Google
> required it, not our IT dept).   They are making the 2-factor as lax as

To follow up on this, my gmail msmtp setup stopped working finally
this morning.

I enabled 2-step verification and then got App passwords set up and it
works fine again.



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