Re: Gmail removing support for "less secure apps"

[Jack <ostroffjh users sourceforge net>]

On 2022.05.08 15:46, Gerardo Ballabio via balsa-list wrote:
> Hello all,
> in order to access my Gmail folder from Balsa via IMAP, I need to
> enable "less secure apps" in this page:
> https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps
> (you may need to be logged into a Google account to see this page)
>
> According to this other page:
> https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255?hl=en
> "less secure apps" means "third-party apps or devices which ask you to
> sign in to your Google Account using only your username and password".
>
> This has worked until now, but Google is now announcing that they'll
> disable that option starting from May 30, 2022, that is, three weeks
> from now. This means I won't be able to use Balsa to read my Gmail
> folder anymore (I've just checked again that if I tick off the option,
> trying to open the folder in Balsa gives an "authentication failed"
> message).
>
> Are you aware of this issue and are you planning to act on it, or is
> there already a way to work around it?
>
> The version of Balsa I'm using is the one shipped with Debian stable,
> that is, 2.6.1.
>
> Thanks
> Gerardo Ballabio
I don't remember jumping through the hoops that Peter linked to, but I  
can access my gmail account by both pop3 and imap, and I haven't been  
getting any nasty messages from Google recently, so I probably did so a  
while ago.

Jack