Re: Planned Google authentication changes

Kamil Jońca <[email protected]> Tue, 22 Mar 2022 09:46:42 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.mail.fetchmail.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Matthias Andree <[email protected]> writes:

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



I have such config. No problems.


I also tried oauth2, but it seem that authorization token is valid for
only a week :(
So I try to keep app-passwords as long as it can be possible.


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