Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On 08/12/2015 18:29, cinder wrote:
> Woops! Sorry, I miss read the post. It had nothing to with me. I'm not
> used to reading mail in a terminal:) I'll have to figure out how to get
> rid of the advetisingr, or maybe thats the deal with a free account:(
> 
> Philip Webb wrote:
>> Mutt should not be a security risk !
> 
> I don't doubt mutt for a moment:)
> 
> »Q« wrote:
>> Gmail by default locks out any client that doesn't use OAuth 2.0,
>> which AIUI is most of them.  Somewhere in Gmail's web interface is a
>> setting to allow other clients to connect.  IIRC the text is something
>> like "allow less secure clients to connect to your Gmail account".
> 
> I thought there might be a way. But seems kinda unfreindly. Maybe I'll
> have to that if I can't get rid the add stuck on the end of my mail.



Allow me to translate the Google-speak:

"less secure mail app" really means "a really shitty auth method that
isn't our (Google's) auth method". So click the (rather well-hidden)
button in Gmail's interface and go back to the really shitty auth method
we all used just fine for 10+ years already.




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Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com