From 41bc2bb9db3c8b532aa9446f730040bd4ba4a2ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 01:24:24 +0100
Subject: Amend to section I9 Google use...

...and refer users to turning on the "less secure apps" access.
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 <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
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