[Alpine-info] Gmail Access

[Karen Lewellen via Alpine-info]

How would you do this in DOS?
I imagine that question is for Steve, since he seems to believe, speaking 
personally, that everyone uses computers as he does.
My karenlewellen.com email is hosted with a provider who insures equal 
access for me.
Storing more than 8 gig of gmail  mail locally keeping it in context..in 
DOS, will be an interesting 
thing  for Steve to answer. Minus he pay someone whose body works 
differently suggestion of course.
Kare



On Mon, 27 May 2024, Andrew C Aitchison via Alpine-info wrote:


> 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.

>

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> Andrew C. Aitchison                      Kendal, UK

>                   andrew at aitchison.me.uk

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