the great Gmail ERR [AUTH] therad

Francesco Ariis <[email protected]> Thu, 2 Jun 2022 19:27:31 +0200

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Hello getmailers,
    as a serial procrastinator that I am, today I got bitten by Gmail
switching off user/password authentication

    Copyright (C) 1998-2020 Charles Cazabon and others. Licensed under GNU GPL version 2.
    SimplePOP3SSLRetriever:[email protected]@pop.gmail.com:995:
    gmail: operation error (POP error (b'-ERR [AUTH] Username and password not accepted.'))
      0 messages (0 bytes) retrieved, 0 skipped

What are the options to circumvent that today I tried something about oauth
last month but it was — for me — a daunting task.
Thanks in advance
—F