It's a prompt notification gmail sends you each time you log on and it has a yes and no button hitting the yes button gets you access to your account. Two factor authentication has been cracked regularly by the bad actors on the internet. I think it was stormdragon2976 that wrote fleacollar.sh and I have what's probably an outdated copy of it around here somewhere. -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Mon, 20 Nov 2023, Karen Lewellen wrote: > fleacollar? laughs! > seriously, unless that cell phone process is voice only, that door is a > closed one, if it has to be done often. > When I lost access to my research gmail account lewellen.kd@xxxxxxxxx, I set > up mail forwarding. only to have items flagged as spam that I could not, > still cannot reach. > For the inbox I lost access to this morning, my need is greater, access to > its contents for the files stored there. > lost that with the mail forwarding door as well. > Kare > > > On Mon, 20 Nov 2023, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > Gmail always has AllMail which is everything that comes at anyone in gmail > > and everything that goes out to everyone in gmail, the inbox and all other > > labels are subsets of AllMail. > > For would-be mutt users, a script found in some versions of mutt is called > > fleacollar.sh intended to make proper setup of mutt less pain-filled. > > If use of gmail is a must have, you'll need to enable two factor > > authentication which means you need to provide your cell phone number for > > two factor authentication and then generate an app-password to use it. > > > > Another alternative would be to log into your google account and arrange > > to have everything forwarded to a different email address off gmail in > > some future date. This way for the stuff coming at you you'd never need > > to touch gmail again. > > Pre-existing content of AllMail could be pulled onto that other email > > address with offline-imap. > > > > > > -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in > > defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that > > order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. > > > > On Tue, 21 Nov 2023, 'Ishe Chinyoka' via blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I use mutt and gmail. What I can say is that, first you need to enable > >> two-factor on your Gmail account. Then, second, you have to generate an > >> app password for mutt. Having copied the generated password, you have to > >> set up both an Imap and msmtp utilities such as offlineimap for fetching > >> the mail, and msmtp for sending the mail. Of course, I understand mutt > >> can handle both these operations, so you can set up in the .muttrc, but > >> as for me I use other external programmes for doing just that. > >> > >> What I did was to set up the ~/.netrc file where I stored my login > >> credentials so both offlineimap and msmtp use this .netrc to read the > >> gmail app password. > >> > >> As for mutt accessibility, as a text mail handler, it is just fine. You > >> can use vim for composing your messages. > >> > >> Anyway, mutt has many configuration items. The mutt manual is detailed > >> in how each of these settings affect the behaviour of mutt itself. I > >> hope others can chip in. But I just wanted to help on how I set up mutt > >> with gmail on my machine. > >> > >> Be blessed, > >> > >> > >> Ishe > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> Karen Lewellen <klewellen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> > >>> Hi, > >>> my problem though is that I need access to the inbox contents entirely, > >>> not just to forward. > >>> The Debian list is currently discussing things like mutt with gmail, and > >>> imap as an alternative. > >>> Apparently this bypasses the security problems with gmail in general? > >>> And yes, I send from it too..agree that hosting your own mail has > >>> positives. > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> Karen > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> On Mon, 20 Nov 2023, Jason J.G. White wrote: > >>> > >>>> > >>>> On 20/11/23 17:30, Karen Lewellen wrote: > >>>>> Anyone use mutt that can lend documentation, or a hand? > >>>>> > >>>> I'm familiar with Mutt, but not with using it with Gmail. In particular, > >>>> it > >>>> is my understanding that authentication is more complicated now than it > >>>> used > >>>> to be, due to Google's security policies. > >>>> > >>>> This article seems to be a reasonably up to date starting point: > >>>> https://www.thetechedvocate.org/how-to-install-and-configure-mutt-with-gmail-on-linux/ > >>>> > >>>> I have a GMail account, but it's configured to forward everything to one > >>>> of > >>>> my "real" e-mail accounts, and I don't use it to send messages. My Mutt > >>>> configuration is et up to work with mail on my own server. > >>>> > >>>> > >> > >> > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to blinux-list+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxx.