Cannot Receive Mail with Mutt / Debian Stable

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

No I haven't done that, I just got another blocked email from gmail.

I'll try the link you gave.

Regards,
David

On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 11:05 AM Dan Ritter <dsr-mutt at randomstring.org> wrote:
>
> D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
> > For several months now, I haven't been able to receive mail with mutt.
>
> General, currently useless suggestion: don't let this sort of
> thing go past a day or two. If you haven't solved it then, ask.
>
> > When regrettably, I go into X Windows (MATE), I use webmail and see
> > that google has blocked an attempt to log in and proudly says that the
> > user (me) had my password.  I'm guessing since it always happens when
> > I make little changes in .muttrc to see if I can get mail with mutt,
> > that it's because of mutt.
>
> I'm guessing that you are trying to use mutt to access GMail via
> IMAP.
>
> Is that correct?
>
> Did you ask Google to set up an application-specific password
> for mutt? It's in your Google security settings.
>
> https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en
>
> -dsr-