[sylpheed:37326] Re: Prevented from switching gmail account to POP3

Anton Shepelev <[email protected]> Fri, 26 Jul 2024 14:56:46 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.mail.sylpheed.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
G.A. L.F.:

> I don't plan on testing this until after the switch-over
> (e.g., Oct 1st, whatever).  The reason is that I do not
> want to spend a lot of effort to get it working with
> Sylpheed just to have the feature stop working after they
> start enforcing OAuth2.  I think I'd rather just expend
> efforts once and if that doesn't work out I'll migrate
> over to Fastmail.

Testing is simple and better done beforehand.  My Sylpheed
3.7.0 works with Gmail app passwords.  All I had to do was
to set one up in Gmail and in Sylpheed replace my Google
password with the app password:

<https://www.sraoss.jp/pipermail/sylpheed/2024-January/007182.html>