Gmail OAuth/OOB deprecation: how to fix?

lilydjwg lilydjwg at gmail.com
Fri May 6 14:19:31 UTC 2022


On Fri, May 06, 2022 at 03:11:54PM +0100, Dave Ewart wrote:
> On Thursday, 05.05.2022 at 20:27 -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> 
> > Try this:
> > https://nidkil.me/2018/01/18/setting-up-mutt-to-send-mail-using-gmail-with-2fa-set/
> 
> Is this something you are using or recommend? I note that the post is
> more than four years old and my query relates to a very recent change in
> the Google setup.

I'm using the script and method from getmail6 [1] but have adapted it to
msmtp and offlineimap.

> I thought 'app passwords' were considered somewhat deprecated by GMail,
> to be honest... ?

No. GMail is deprecating login via account passwords, not app passwords.

[1] https://github.com/getmail6/getmail6/blob/master/docs/getmailrc-examples

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Best regards,
lilydjwg


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