Re: [Fetchmail-users] OAUTH2 Confusion

[Héctor A. <hab...@gm...>]

According to what I read in this list, the Fetchmail version that takes
care of oauth2 is version 7. Version 6 can do it with third party patches.

I know that every user, circumstances and needs are different, and I am not
familiar with very technical aspects of email services, so in my particular
case this is what I'm doing, just in case it's helpful to another fetchmail
user: Since I only need to keep my GMail address receiving and sending
messages but I don't consider urgent to keep up with oauth2, I just
followed the advise shared in this list about finding an alternative email
service while keeping the GMail address and not being forced to use oauth2,
nor receiving threats from Google about not allowing "less secure apps" to
work (they coined the expression "less secure"). In this list they
mentioned very affordable services like posteo.de and mailbox.org ; I'm
using noip.com which is also affordable and it's working for now. I'm only
using my GMail address to appear in the "From: " field and to receive and
forward messages to my new email service (POP3).

Short story: "Free" email services like GMail or Yahoo are not for me
anymore, I prefer to tell GMail to just forward, I keep using the GMail
address for now and pay a little bit for another email service that gives
me choices instead of forcing me to complicate my life and waste my time. I
will eventually get rid of my GMail address, too.

Good luck!

Hector.

El mié., 23 de marzo de 2022 10:32 a. m., Dennis Putnam <da...@be...>
escribió:

> I'm a little confused about support for OAUTH2. Is there a version that
> does indeed support OAUTH2? I am among those that are stuck using gmail
> and we have until May 30, to get this resolved. What is the current
> status? TIA.
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