Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> Note that connecting to Gmail may require you to set up the account >> with Gnome-Online-Accounts (GOA) because of recent changes in Google's >> authentication policies, i.e. just inserting your password in Balsa may >> not be enough Bob Goodwin: > Hmm, perhaps there is some problem there? I just assumed that the > settings that work for Thunderbird would work for Gmail. I have been > using Gmail at times recently due to problems with Wildblue. However it > appears Wildblue has straightened out the problems and it is back to > normal.. When I dallied with gmail, they were doing per-application passwords. Quite how they identified that a different program was accessing their servers, I do not know (there are various ways of fingerprinting software, from their handshaking routines). Though I can certainly see how they'd easily tell apart a web browser from a mail client. You had to go into Google accounts and set up an extra login for each application (same account, different pass). -- tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.19.8-100.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Tue May 12 17:42:35 UTC 2015 i686 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
