Re: [Evolution] "Error occurred while sending" after enabling Google 2-step authentication [with solution]

[Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com>]

On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 13:15 +1000, Nick Jenkins wrote:
> Some Background: What's happened is that I recently turned on Google
> 2-step authentication, after reading a horror story of someone having
> their gmail password stolen (e.g. from a keylogger on an Internet
> terminals), and from that lost their email, contacts, calendars, and
> then experiencing bank fraud due to identity theft and reset passwords
> on their banking sites, and so forth, and the whole thing sounded like a
> total nightmare ... and in the ensuing discussion, the consensus
> solution to avoid the same fate was to turn on 2-step authentication,
> where you enter a password, plus a numeric code that's SMSed to your
> phone or generated on your phone, and only with both of those things can
> you log in (i.e. something you know + something you have). So similar to
> many banking sites, but you can mark a browser as trusted after the
> first successful login, and thereafter you only need your password, so a
> bit more convenient.

You would be better off using GNOME Online Accounts (or Ubuntu Online
Accounts if you're a Unity guy) where you sign into Google once to
obtain an access token good for all Google services.

Evolution will self-configure a Google account for you and use your
access token so as to never bother you with a password prompt.

Matthew Barnes