Kmail: Gmail (less secure apps) advice for GNU emacs developers.

Martin Steigerwald martin at lichtvoll.de
Mon Aug 10 08:12:12 BST 2020


Dear Uwe.

Uwe Brauer - 10.08.20, 09:02:15 CEST:
> Hello
> 
> I am writing on behalf of the GNU emacs developers, Richard Stallman
> in particular, asking for advice.
> 
> The issue concerns an announcement by the gmail developers to drop the
> option to connect to their IMAP service via name and password, known
> as less-secure-apps. The main email reader of GNU Emacs, called gnus
> relies on this method. Someone on the GNU emacs developer list
> suggested that kmail solved the problem and is able to connect to the
> GMAIL imap server using their OAuth2 method.
> 
> So the question is addressed to the kmail developers, but I could not
> find an active mailing list just for kmail, so if this list is not the
> right place to ask the question, I would appreciate a link to the
> relevant one.

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