Re: [Evolution] GMail & OAuth?

[Mark Stanton <mark stantoncentral co uk>]

On Sat, 2022-03-05 at 19:11 -0800, Robert McDonald wrote:
> I got the same email about the May 30 deadline for both of my GMail
> accounts, so today I:
>    1. read https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255
>    2. logged into one of the Google accounts via web browser
>    3. confirmed backup email address
>    4. tried changing one of the accounts in Evolution to "OAuth2
>       (Google)" in both receive and send configurations (didn't
> delete
>       and re-do the account)
>    5. got Google Mail Authentication request within an Evolution
> email
>       request
>    6. entered email address to web page presented by Google web
> server
>       (window shows the URL of the server - nice confirmation)
>    7. entered password to similar page
>    8. chose to Allow trust of Evolution
>    9. disabled "Less secure app access" in that Google account
> I was able to send and receive emails using that account after that.
> I
> found Evolution's handling of OAuth2 easy to follow. It just worked.

This is great, thank you.
I (mostly) followed this and it seems to work, although it still
complains each time I start Evo that it *can't* download from the GMail
box, but it actually does. Weird.

Mark