Re: Sending to some who has a gmail account.

On Sat, 12 Mar 2022 17:53:53 +0000
Abrolag <[email protected]> wrote:

>On Sat, 12 Mar 2022 10:18:58 +0000
>Abrolag <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>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  
>
>I'm pleased to say I was able to download and compile V 4.0.0 without problems.
>Either it's much simpler than it used to be, or I've learned a bit :p
>
>Anyway, I'm no longer getting that delivery rejection - but not had a reply back
>from the other end so I still don't know if it's completely resolved.
>

Hmmm. Spoker too soon :(
Can't find bogofilter. Tried compiling and installing this from scratch
(apparently sucessfully), then rebuild claws (remembered to go through
.configure again) - still no go.

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