Re: kmail and OAUth

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On Fri, 7 Oct 2022, deloptes wrote:

Marvin Jones via tde-users wrote:

IMO no. OAuth is broken beyond repair, nobody (besides M$) uses it.

Uhhh, I believe Gmail is using it.  And, from many usenet posts,
it ain't going well there, either -- at least not for *nix users.


I use something Google calls 'app passwords' to do email using Alpine (!).

you get a special password to use and so far no problems.

(sometimes the old pw I had set works.)

the uni I'm associated with uses Google but they haven't introduced OAuth there yet. not sure how it works if you have limited administrative powers.

I hope this link works:
<https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=de&visit_id=638007494728438161-3147925858&p=app_passwords_sa&rd=1>

fjd

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Davis

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