[sylpheed:37088] Re: Gmail accounts no longer accessible from Sylpheed?

On Fri, 4 Mar 2022 05:05:30 -0800
Alan Ianson <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am going to have to go down that road too.. probably should have
> done it years ago but now we have to do it.


Hi,

all of us who use Gmail.


> I think Imap4 is going to be the way forward.


No, IMAP is just a protocol for access/retrieval/management to/of
mails as it is POP.

What Google is enforcing is the authentication protocol: OAuth.

Instead of sending username and password with other authentication
protocols (AUTH LOGIN, AUTH PLAIN, etc), you/your mail client use a
key, that is sent to an authentication server, that then sends back a
token, that then is used to access the mail server.

All in name of supposed better security...



> On Fri, 4 Mar 2022 12:20:44 +0100
> José Luis González <[email protected]> wrote:

> > If I'm not wrong, this is the method I am using to access my Gmail
> > accounts from Sylpheed. I wonder if there is a better method that
> > is not going to be dropped, or if it is planned to be implemented
> > any soon.


Only Hiroyuki would tell.



So there are two options, or stop using Gmail (and probably, soon,
Hotmail/Outlook, and maybe, later, Yahoo/AOL (despite these
implemented an app password months ago)), or switch to another mail
client that supports OAuth authentication. What, anyway, is not
available on Sylpheed.


Those are the options.

Regards.