[Alpine-info] Gmail Access

[Andrew C Aitchison via Alpine-info]

On Mon, 27 May 2024, Steve Litt via Alpine-info wrote:


> Karen Lewellen said on Sun, 26 May 2024 22:14:14 -0400 (EDT)

>

>> Chime,

>> I still agree with some others.

>>  Speaking personally, the most efficient way to interface gmail with

>> alpine

>> is to use Imap create an app password specifically for alpine, and

>> configure  accordingly.

>> Although there are steps, once done, my own gmail account works just

>> fine with  Alpine.

>> granted, I am using ssh to reach the mail server where alpine is

>> configured, but it works.

>> Karen

>

> If you can use Alpine to view email on gmail's IMAP server, then you

> can use fetchmail and procmail to load your own Dovecot server from any

> old IMAP or POP3, and view your emails there (much faster and more

> reliably). And you can back them up.


Alpine officially supports OAUTH2 with GMail. I don't know about procmail, 
but fetchmail officially *does not* support OAUTH2 with GMail.


> This is a fair amount of work but I think it's easier than keeping up

> with all gmail's ongoing inconvenient changes.


To be fair I think there is only the one inconvenient change
(from standard passwords (aka insecure apps) to OAUTH-BEARER)
but it was originally scheduled for 2019 and has been put back many times.

-- 
Andrew C. Aitchison                      Kendal, UK
                    andrew at aitchison.me.uk