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

[J. Paul Bissonnette]

On Sun, 19 Jun 2022 18:38:31 +0200
Ralf Mardorf via Users <users at lists.claws-mail.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 19 Jun 2022 16:46:03 +0100, Abrolag wrote:
> >What about those of us who *don't* have a gmail account who's replies
> >to gmail victims is rejected :(
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I seriously doubt that an email sent with Claws gets rejected by
> Google, because it was sent with Claws.

The mail goes through the way I have had Claws Mail set up for years

> 
> However, don't inform Google that you are using Claws by
> 
> Configuration > Edit Accounts... > Select the account you are using to
> sent mail to a Google account > Edit > Send >
> 
>   uncheck   Add user agent header

even with user agent checked

> 
> Some providers strip this header anyway.
> 
> In addition you could
> 
>   check     Add user-defined header
> 
> and define whatever header you want instead. Maybe
> 
> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101
>  Thunderbird/78.14.0
> 
> or
> 
> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) SEMI-EPG/1.14.7 (Harue)
>  FLIM-LB/1.14.9 (Gojō) APEL-LB/10.8 EasyPG/1.0.0
>  Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO)
> 
> or
> 
> User-Agent: Evolution 3.36.5-0ubuntu1 
> 
> or
> 
> X-Mailer: PHPMailer 5.2.23 (https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer)
> 
> or
> 
> X-Mailer: Formware Mailservice Microsoft CDO
> 
> or
> 
> X-Mailer: vBulletin Mail via PHP
> 
> or
> 
> X-Mailer: Open-Xchange Mailer v7.10.5-Rev41
> 
> or
> 
> X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (19D52)
> 
> Just a few I can see in my non-Google inboxes. But again, a lot of
> the received emails don't provide such a header at all.
> 
> Regards,
> Ralf
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