Annoying Gmail

Aug 31, 2021 Last reply: 4 years ago 11 Replies
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Gmail login, mail download and upload works fine on my laptop at home, on my home network, but away from home - no chance....



Away I use another laptop, usually via a mobile network, with my phone acting as an hotspot. Google sometimes, only sometimes emails me to my ISP email address, to which access is OK - and warns me it might be an hacking attempt, with a link to their website. I click OK to say it is me trying to login, but each login attempt still gets rejected.



Not sure if it is complaining about me using a different laptop, or a different network to login to grab mail.


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Does gmail work OK through the googlemail app on your phone itself ?

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Harry Bloomfield;Esq. snipped-for-privacy@harrym1byt.plus.com> wrote

It will be the different network. You can prove that by trying the other laptop at home.

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On the phone, it just says it blocked a sign in attempt. I never use it on the phone..

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Alex explained :

Almost certainly you are correct, but why does Gmail not allow alternate ISP connections?

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Harry Bloomfield;Esq. snipped-for-privacy@harrym1byt.plus.com> wrote

It does, it works fine on my home system and on the mobile when out of the house.

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Yes it does, however if you're using gmail for imap4 or pop3 access, rather than as webmail or the phone app, you might have to enable "less secure access" in the gmail settings, or (preferably?) switch to using oAuth2 authentication.

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+1 It still moans at me about 'insecure access' in terms of accessing via POP3

I think I HAVE done oAuth2 as well...

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you do.

I've started to look into this for my email client but I'm not sure I can be arsed to implement it.

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It appears Thunderboid supports it.

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So does Apple Mail. I started to work on thinking about how to include it in my client, but I struggle to get excited enough to put the effort in.

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