[Users] [Bug 4601] New: gmail no longer supports "insecure" client

[Richard]

> Date: Saturday, June 04, 2022 13:24:26 +1200
> From: cr <cr at orcon.net.nz>
> 
> Apologies, but (it seems) my failures with Gmail seem to have
> disappeared from claws.log and claws.log.bak - it doesn't seem to
> keep its logs long.
> 
> My Gmail accounts are currently set with my regular Gmail passwords
> - haven't changed them.   The failure consisted of Claws popping up
> an error box along the lines of 'authentication failed' or something
> similar.   

With an exception for google workspace and cloud accounts, Google has
announced that they are turning off the use of the site-wide password
for 3rd-party application authentication. So, if you are not using
OAuth2 and are still using your google site-wide password with claws
you can expect it to stop working without further notice.

If you don't want to switch to OAuth2 you can set up a google
app-password and use that instead [1]. That option may be turned off
at some point too, but at least for now google is still supporting
that approach.

If you don't switch to use OAuth2 or app-passwords there's really not
much else that can be done to make claws work with gmail, once google
permanently turns off use of the site-wide password. 


[1] <https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255?hl=en>