[Alpine-info] Gmail Access

[Carlos E. R. via Alpine-info]

On 2024-05-23 12:20, Steve Litt via Alpine-info wrote:

> Marc Lytle via Alpine-info said on Sat, 18 May 2024 16:59:04 -0700

> 

>> 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.

> 

> Why gmail? It's notoriously difficult to deal with. Why not just buy a

> domain for $15/year and use the mailing address(s) from that domain?


You still need to hire something to host the mail.

Instead, you could simply contract a mail account somewhere. You could 
even contract Gmail for groups for a group of people; consider that the 
group administration sets the rules, so if the group decides "no 
oauth2", then it is no oauth2 and simple passwords continue working.

And example of a group doing this is the ieee.org


All these solutions pose a problem for the individual: he has to change 
mail address, and tell this to everybody, and resubscribe at every site 
or or organization, which is no small problem.

He would still need to keep the old gmail address and check it now and 
then for posts going there.

-- 
Cheers / Saludos,

		Carlos E. R.
		(from 15.5 x86_64 at Telcontar)

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