7 Oct
2022
7 Oct
'22
2:38 p.m.
On Fri, 7 Oct 2022, deloptes wrote:
Marvin Jones via tde-users wrote:
>> IMO no. OAuth is broken beyond repair, nobody (besides M$) uses it.
>
> Uhhh, I believe Gmail is using it. And, from many usenet posts,
> it ain't going well there, either -- at least not for *nix users.
>
I use something Google calls 'app passwords' to do email using Alpine
(!).
you get a special password to use and so far no problems.
(sometimes the old pw I had set works.)
the uni I'm associated with uses Google but they haven't introduced
OAuth there yet. not sure how it works if you have limited
administrative powers.
I hope this link works:
<https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=de&visit_id=638007494728438161-3147925858&p=app_passwords_sa&rd=1>
fjd
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