[Alpine-info] Gmail Access

[Karen Lewellen via Alpine-info]

Hi Marc,
so others can start with the basics, can you first share which Ubuntu, and 
which alpine you are using?
Is the person experiencing sight loss also using Linux, or some other 
system?
What I personally ended up doing, profoundly fortunately, is  connecting 
with   a talent  through the Toronto Linux group who likes to create 
servers.
I ssh  into shellworld from my own chosen screen reader..there are scores 
of them across platforms, then ssh into  his shell, where alpine is set up 
with my gmail account.
I suspect others here will need to know more about the floor if that makes 
sense.
Imap is creative generally, keeping gmail happy is an entirely different 
dance .
With respect,
Karen



On Sat, 18 May 2024, Marc Lytle via Alpine-info wrote:


> Hello all,

>

> I have set up Alpine with Gmail and I'm able to successfully connect to the

> Gmail account and access/send email. The issue is that this just stops

> working after a couple of days. This is coming from a WSL environment

> (Ubuntu). I have the master password set up and if necessary I can open the

> links provided in Alpine and work through the steps to re-auquthorize it.

> The weird thing is that each time I'm pulling down the exact same token

> from Gmail. The Google account info says that the access "Does not expire"

> but it still stops working. I have a master password file set up.

>

> If I were to main user of this account, then this would be an annoyance and

> nothing more, but this is set up for a blind woman who is still learning to

> interact with the screen reader. She is not able at this time to go through

> those steps. So, if there is a way to keep the authentication going

> on Alpine's end, I'd love to hear it.

>

> Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.

> -- 

> Marc Lytle

> marclytle.com

>