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

[Mario Sanchez Prada <mario endlessm com>]

On 20/03/15 16:41, Robert Schroll wrote:
> [...]
> 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.
That explains a lot. At the moment I configured my email account through GOA
and that works in Evolution perfectly, so my assumption is also that either
GOA or evolution seems to be implementing OAuth2.

> 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.

That's interesting, as integration with GOA would be perfect for me in this
precise case. I saw the blog post in [1] and got the feeling that GOA was
not going to happen, but that was probably a misinterpretation of mine.

I'll take a look to those pointers then.

Thanks!
Mario

[1]https://blogs.gnome.org/jnelson/2013/02/13/the-garden-of-the-forking-paths/