Re: [Fetchmail-users] Google Less Secure Apps - End Of Life

[Lucio C. <lu...@la...>]

On Mon, 13 May 2024, Matthias Andree wrote:

> So then, app password access it will be.

Yes, insofar it works.

I do not really understand in what an app password is different from any 
other password (though I never dared trying it with webmail access, which 
I do extremely seldom).

Currently I use app password for *occasional* Gsuite checks from my alpine 
MUA (for spam folder once per day, or for mail "in transit" before it is 
fetchmailed). I could use the same app password with fetchmail, but I 
preferred to forward Gsuite mail to a third party and fetch it from there.

I feel inclined IMVHO to thing G*** itself is a PITA. Just yesterday I 
added a cousin's address to a series of crontab for birthday wishes (used 
since years), and it bounced because of an SPF error. Apparently this was 
due to the fact mailx (the MUA used by crontab) issued a From of the form 
us...@ma...main (while alpine uses user@domain which passes SPF on the 
SMTP for the domain). A mailx -r cured it.

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