[sylpheed:37242] Re: Warning: Beginning Oct 1, 2024 Sylpheed will no longer function with GMail POP3/IMAP

On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 02:16:24 -0800
"G.A. L.F." <[email protected]> wrote:

> See the statement from Google here:
> 
> https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/09/winding-down-google-sync-and-less-secure-apps-support.html
> 
> It looks like in order to continue using Sylpheed with POP3 (or IMAP)
> Sylpheed will need to begin supporting OAuth -- which, according to the
> last email thread on this,  the development release (sylpheed-3.8beta1,
> which claims to support it) isn't actually functioning correctly.  It goes
> without saying I suppose that the stable release, 3.7, does not support
> OAuth.
> 
> If say, by September Sylpheed continues to not function with GMail it
> appears I will have two choices: move to another email client (one that
> supports OAuth apparently) or change email providers.  I've been with
> Sylpheed since the beginning and it's giving me consternation... and
> feeling quite a lot of anger towards Google too.
> 
> Thoughts?

You may not have to move to another client - you may be able to
continue to use Sylpheed as an MUA, and some other software that
implements OAuth, such as Getmail, as an MDA:

https://www.bytereef.org/howto/oauth2/getmail.html

(I have no experience with this, and don't know how robust this OAuth
support is.)

FWIW, I currently use Getmail(6) as my MDA for the dozen or so email
accounts I manage with Sylpheed, at least in part because I really
don't like Sylpheed's modal dialog boxes that it creates when doing POP.

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Celejar