[Users] Sending to some who has a gmail account.

Paul paul at claws-mail.org
Sat Mar 12 10:45:53 CET 2022


On Fri, 11 Mar 2022 14:23:50 -0800
Geoffrey Leach <geoff at hughes.net> wrote: 

> Is it possible that this email has tripped across Gmail's  'less secure
> app access' configuration? 

This is nothing to do with that. The misnomer 'less secure apps' means apps
that's don't use oauth2 to connect to google's servers to send mail through
them. This is about receiving mail to your gmail account.

> Basically, it appears that gmail looks at
> the app that is sending the email and/or how the email app is doing
> authentication and says that you can allow it, but only for a couple of
> months. For example, claws-mail does not conform (at least with my
> configuration).

Since the last release(s) (4.0.0 and 3.18.0) Claws Mail has support for
oauth2, so it can now dance to gmail's beat.

with regards

Paul


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