Re: OT - Google accounts turning off less secure access

They have a 9 Month *inactive account* notification warning on my rarely used address.

No. It all depends on *what* you are using and *how*.

I have/look after several gmail accounts which have continued to work. They are all using IMAP in MS Outlook 2019. That supports OAuth2 for IMAP.

OTOH the several accounts using POP stopped working at the end of May until given app passwords - just as Andy Burns said.

because some people (americans) are saying it still works with standard password, without oauth, without app-specific.

I tried reverting from oauth2 to standard password, and it no longer accepted it.

But the change doesn't seem to have affected everyone *yet*

Who cares? If standard p/w no longer works, then change. Why should I give a monkey's whether some unspecified Septics are unaffected or not? My mail from Google on the issue said 31 May, that's all I care about.

Mine still working.

In article snipped-for-privacy@ghcq.uk, bert snipped-for-privacy@bert.bert.com> writes

Stopped yesterday but followed Tim's procedure (thanks Tim) and all up and running again. Google 1 Bert 0 AET

In article <BMkV2mALRMoiFAj$@ghcq.uk>, bert snipped-for-privacy@bert.bert.com> writes

Spoke too soon. Can receive but can't send "Application specific password required"

As well as changing your POP or IMAP account to oauth, did you set the relevant SMTP account too?

Lost TB imap contact with gmail lunchtime yesterday , not reverted of

OBVIOUSLY THEY ARE TRYING TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD, AND MAKE EVERYTHING IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT THEIR TECHNOLOGY.

Apparently K-9 is to become Thunderbird for Android

Do either of these support Usenet?

Thunderbird does. I wonder in that facility will find its way into the Thunderbird version of K-9?

So much for "Go to your Google Account. Select Security. Under "Signing in to Google," select App Passwords."

Nowhere did I find App Passwords in an hour of farting about. Just going round in circles in device manager etc. "2-Step Verification" section for my selected device just showed phone or key-fob dongly thingy route, nothing about App password route

Thunderbird normally does

Christ, do I have to post this again?

If you use a "less secure app" to pick up mail from your gmail account, then you may wish to read on. My app is what Google terms a "less secure app" for accessing gmail, and indeed as I download my gmail from Google using it, then I have already had to log on to my gmail account and enable "allow less secure apps". You will also have received warnings from Google that as of 30th May this will no longer be allowed.

So, what to do? I have found is that one can continue with my existing app by using something called an app-specific password. I'm doing this and it seems to work. Here's how.

Firstly, you'll need to logon to your gmail account, and under "Manage account", choose "Security". Then, choose to enable Two-step-verification, or

Having done this, return to your Security page, and in the part on "Signing in to Google", you'll see the section about "App Passwords". Expand that section next. Where you see "Select device" in that section, choose your device type. Then, where it says "Select App", choose "Other" and enter your app's name. Now you can click "Generate". This will put up a pane with a password in large type that you need to copy (with ctrl/cmd-c or similar) to the clipboard.

Now switch to your app and open the Preferences. Choose your gmail account, highlight the password field, and paste (with ctrl/cmd-v or similar) the password you copied above into the password field. Then click Save.

That's it.

Oh, and this procedure should work for any so-called "less secure app" you may be using to download your gmail.

It might, but I get the impression it's initially just about renaming K9 to Thunderbird,.

Th option for app-passwords will only show up *after* you've enabled 2-step verification.

Turnpike works. Kindly don't ask me how!

demon.ip.support.turnpike is ->-> that way.