Re: [Geary] Not able to log in a @gmail account with "Less secure apps" access disabled

[Robert Schroll <rschroll gmail com>]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Mario Sanchez Prada 
<mario endlessm com> wrote:
> I've digged a bit more in the logs (see output of geary --debug 
> attached)
> and found that the problem seems to be that Google is rejecting the
> authentication because of not having "Less secure apps" access 
> enabled in my
> Google account.

I believe that Google now considers anything not using OAuth2 to be 
"less secure."  (See 
http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/new-security-measures-will-affect-older.html) 
Geary does not support OAuth2 authentication at present.  I'm assuming 
that Evolution does.

There's been some work on this in the context of enabling Gnome and 
Ubuntu Online Accounts (bugs 714876 and 714877).  It's not yet 
functional, and there hasn't been any work on it as of late.

Robert