[sylpheed:37120] Re: Gmail accounts no longer accessible from Sylpheed?

On Thu, 2 Jun 2022 13:54:25 +0300
Anton Shepelev <[email protected]> wrote:

> Jose Luis:
>    You say we have to activate two-step verification. The
>    first verification step I understand is the app password.
>    I wonder what the second step would be.
> 
> Anton Shepelev:
>    Probably some code by SMS...But I don't know and don't
>    care.  With app passwords, there will be no second step,
>    anyway...
> 
> Steve O'Hara-Smith:
>    Two step verification (password and SMS usually) has to
>    be activated on the gmail account before you are allowed
>    to issue app passwords on the account. The app passwords
>    can then be used by apps that can't (or won't) do oauth2
>    like sylpheed without any extra authentication.
> 
> Yes, Steve is correct.  The app password is, in fact, an
> *alternative* to two-step verificaion, but in order to
> activate it you have to enable two-step verification first.
> Confusing!

Thanks a lot to you and Steve, really.

I really hope regular auth will stay, because this App password
invention seems like nonsense to me, since it all goes encrypted,
unless they are too afraid of OpenSSL security holes and the like...

Cheers,
JL