[Users] Gdata

[Lyle Bickley]

Just as a comment - which may or may not be of help w/regards to your Linux
Distribution:

I have been using the gdata plugin for years to access my Google addressbook.
This is true for both the distribution binaries and compile-from-source
versions of Claws. The distribution I have been using is openSUSE "Leap" Linux.

You do have to give Claws permission to access your Google account - which
option should be provided by Google the first time gdata starts up (or
sometimes on a new release of the gdata plugin).

Regards,
Lyle
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On Thu, 7 Jan 2021 13:47:38 +0100
Ricardo Mones <ricardo at mones.org> wrote:

> Hi Andrea,
> 
> On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 04:39:02PM +0100, Andrea Borrone wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I'm trying to use gdata to access my addressbook on Google Contacts but
> > without success. I'm using Debian Buster ands Gdata ver. 3.17.3 but
> > code (16 alfanumeric code) generate with
> > myaccount.google.com/security/apppasswords doesn't works. In log file:
> > * Plugin GData: Avvio autorizzazione interattiva
> > * Plugin GData: Ottenuto codice di autorizzazione, avvio richiesta
> > autorizzazione
> > *** Plugin GData: Errore di autorizzazione: L'accesso è stato negato
> > dall'utente o dal server.
> > 
> > In English sound like this:
> > * Plugin GData: Start interactive auth
> > * Plugin GData: Get auth code, start auth request
> > *** Plugin GData:  Auth error. Access refused from user or server.
> > 
> > I tried more than one times but without success
> > dpkg -l '*gdata*'
> > ii  claws-mail-gdata-plugin:amd64 3.17.3-2 
> > ii libgdata-common 0.17.9-3     all
> > ii libgdata22:amd64
> > 
> > dpkg -l '*claws-mail*'|grep ^ii
> > ii  claws-mail                     3.17.3-2
> > ii  claws-mail-attach-warner:amd64 3.17.3-2
> > ii  claws-mail-dillo-viewer:amd64 3.17.3-2
> > ii  claws-mail-gdata-plugin:amd64  3.17.3-2
> > ii  claws-mail-i18n                3.17.3-2
> > ii  claws-mail-pdf-viewer:amd64 3.17.3-2
> > ii  claws-mail-pgpinline:amd64     3.17.3-2
> > ii  claws-mail-pgpmime:amd64 3.17.3-2
> > 
> > Please can you help me? Thank you.
> > 
> > PS
> > On Google it's active the two factor auth and...
> > sorry for my English  
> 
> I don't use gdata, but I've tried to start the process from scratch also
> on Debian Buster, and when trying to obtain the code the response from
> Google was a big red warning triangular icon and the following message:
> 
> | This app is blocked
> |
> | This app tried to access sensitive info in your Google Account. To
> | keep your account safe, Google blocked this access.
> 
> The app in question is named "Claws Mail", belonging to holger.berndt at
> gmail.com (GData author), so perhaps that's the problem.
> 
> You may also try to run claws-mail from a terminal with --debug option
> and see if more meaningful messages are printed on it when trying to
> authorise your account.
> 
> regards,



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