Re: Raspberry pi 3B - Authentication Error when trying to Read Gmail

Charles Cazabon <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.getmail.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Glen Hikvision <[email protected]> wrote:
> Before I got back to this project, I updated the Raspberry to the newer
> Raspian Buster OS, and it was at that point that I ran into Authentication
> errors! I tried numerous things and then finally went back to the older OS
> to see if I could get it to work... however, I am now getting the same
> errors with the old OS also!

Interesting.

> SimpleIMAPSSLRetriever:[email protected]:993:
> getmailrc: credential/login error ([AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Invalid
> credentials (Failure))

This actually is the Gmail server refusing the login.  It may be because you
have your username or password specified incorrectly, or because your Gmail
account isn't set to allow "less secure" applications to connect, or something
else, but it's definitely not getmail.

Charles
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