Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> Note that connecting to Gmail may require you to set up the
account
> with Gnome-Online-Accounts (GOA) because of recent changes in Google's
> authentication policies, i.e. just inserting your password in Balsa may
> not be enough
Bob Goodwin:
Hmm, perhaps there is some problem there? I just assumed that the
settings that work for Thunderbird would work for Gmail. I have been
using Gmail at times recently due to problems with Wildblue. However it
appears Wildblue has straightened out the problems and it is back to
normal..
When I dallied with gmail, they were doing per-application passwords.
Quite how they identified that a different program was accessing their
servers, I do not know (there are various ways of fingerprinting
software, from their handshaking routines). Though I can certainly see
how they'd easily tell apart a web browser from a mail client.
You had to go into Google accounts and set up an extra login for each
application (same account, different pass).
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tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.19.8-100.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Tue May 12 17:42:35 UTC 2015 i686
All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying
to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists.
George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not
a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.