Re: Sending to some who has a gmail account.

On Sat, 12 Mar 2022 09:45:53 -0000
Paul <[email protected]> wrote:

>On Fri, 11 Mar 2022 14:23:50 -0800
>Geoffrey Leach <[email protected]> wrote: 
>
>> Is it possible that this email has tripped across Gmail's  'less secure
>> app access' configuration?   
>
>This is nothing to do with that. The misnomer 'less secure apps' means apps
>that's don't use oauth2 to connect to google's servers to send mail through
>them. This is about receiving mail to your gmail account.
>
>> Basically, it appears that gmail looks at
>> the app that is sending the email and/or how the email app is doing
>> authentication and says that you can allow it, but only for a couple of
>> months. For example, claws-mail does not conform (at least with my
>> configuration).  
>
>Since the last release(s) (4.0.0 and 3.18.0) Claws Mail has support for
>oauth2, so it can now dance to gmail's beat.
>
>with regards
>
>Paul

Thanks for that info Paul.

I'm currently on 3.17.8 from devuan chimaera :(
It's been a while since I compiled it from scratch. I have this
{cough}little{cough} soft-synth keeping me busy!

Will


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