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| author | Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> | 2015-12-04 01:24:24 +0100 |
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| committer | Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> | 2015-12-04 01:24:24 +0100 |
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Amend to section I9 Google use...
...and refer users to turning on the "less secure apps" access.
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diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index a42e0c4f..8c276a11 100644 --- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html +++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html @@ -1995,6 +1995,16 @@ sites.)</p> <h2><a id="I9" name="I9">I9. How can I use fetchmail with GMail/Google Mail?</a></h2> +<p>Google has started pushing towards more complex authentication +schemes based on OAuth 2.0 that require clients and users +to jump through quite a few hoops, and use web browsers for signing in. +The easy way around that is to change your settings to turn on access +for "less secure apps" <a + href="https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps">https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps</a>.<br/> +It is disputable whether an application that does not include web +browsing capabilities or heavy-weight libraries is "less secure" as +Google claims.</p> + <p>Google's IMAP servers, as of April 2008, are broken and re-encode MIME-encoded headers improperly and are not feature-complete yet. The model how their servers organize mail also deviates in significant ways |