[Users] Does claws-mail no longer support gmail without enabling the insecure app setting?

Prahlad Yeri prahladyeri at yahoo.com
Sat Jun 24 09:23:14 CEST 2017


Hello Everyone,

I've just started using Claws Mail, having been fed up of Thunderbird's
slow performance. Claws Mail performs great with my all other email
accounts, but there is a problem when I try with my gmail account.

I've setup the IMAP credentials for sending/receiving, but it seems
that Google insists on only OAuth these days. Is there a way to get
it working on Claws Mail without enabling the "less secure sign-in" in
my Gmail account?

My settings:

imap.gmail.com
port: 993 (default)

smtp.gmail.com
port: 465 (default)

"Use SSL/TLS" setting is enabled.

Below is the network log:

* Account '******@gmail.com': Connecting to IMAP server:
  imap.gmail.com:993... [12:37:19] IMAP< * OK Gimap ready for requests
  from 49.34.190.141 n143mb68294293iod 
* IMAP connection is un-authenticated
[12:37:19] IMAP> 1 CAPABILITY 
[12:37:19] IMAP< * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UNSELECT IDLE NAMESPACE QUOTA
  ID XLIST CHILDREN X-GM-EXT-1 XYZZY SASL-IR AUTH=XOAUTH2 AUTH=PLAIN
  AUTH=PLAIN-CLIENTTOKEN AUTH=OAUTHBEARER AUTH=XOAUTH [12:37:19] IMAP<
  1 OK Thats all she wrote! n143mb68294293iod [12:37:19] IMAP> Logging
  ****** to imap.gmail.com using PLAIN [12:37:20] IMAP< Invalid
  credentials (Failure) ** IMAP error on imap.gmail.com: LOGIN error
  [12:37:21] IMAP< Error logging in to imap.gmail.com [12:37:21] IMAP>
  Logging ****** to imap.gmail.com using plaintext [12:37:21] IMAP<
  Invalid credentials (Failure) ** IMAP error on imap.gmail.com: LOGIN
  error [12:37:21] IMAP< Error logging in to imap.gmail.com
[12:37:28] IMAP> Logging ****** to imap.gmail.com using PLAIN
[12:37:29] IMAP< Please log in via your web browser:
  https://support.google.com/mail/accounts/answer/78754 (Failure) ***
  IMAP< Alert: Please log in via your web browser:
  https://support.google.com/mail/accounts/answer/78754 (Failure) **
  IMAP error on imap.gmail.com: LOGIN error [12:37:29] IMAP< Error
  logging in to imap.gmail.com [12:37:29] IMAP> Logging ****** to
  imap.gmail.com using plaintext [12:37:30] IMAP< Please log in via
  your web browser:
  https://support.google.com/mail/accounts/answer/78754 (Failure) ***
  IMAP< Alert: Please log in via your web browser:
  https://support.google.com/mail/accounts/answer/78754 (Failure) **
  IMAP error on imap.gmail.com: LOGIN error [12:37:30] IMAP< Error
  logging in to imap.gmail.com [12:37:31] IMAP> 6 LOGOUT [12:37:32]
  IMAP< * BYE Logout Requested n143mb68294293iod [12:37:32] IMAP< 6 OK
  Quoth the raven, nevermore... n143mb68294293iod *** IMAP< Alert:
  Please log in via your web browser:
  https://support.google.com/mail/accounts/answer/78754 (Failure)



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