Re: Planned Google authentication changes

Christian Ebert <[email protected]> Tue, 22 Mar 2022 09:02:25 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.mail.fetchmail.user
Organization Phloxic Productions https://phloxic.productions
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* Matthias Andree on Tuesday, March 22, 2022 at 09:22:29 +0100:
> One more thing on Google specifically,
> 
> Apparently Google still offer App-specific passwords if users are ready
> to upgrade their account to 2FA (2-factor authentication).
> 
> https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833
> 
> Does anyone using Google and have 2-factor authentication enabled for
> their account

Yes.

> have experience with setting that up for fetchmail and can report here?

I am using the App-specific (rather misleading attribute, it's 
just a password) password with fetchmail and it works (so far?). 
I haven't heard from Google directly about any deadlines, so I'm 
not sure whether the discussion here applies to this case.

FWIW, similar scenario for postfix.

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