On 2022-05-28 14:11, Martin wrote:
Hey
I assume I'm not the only one here with a Gmail account set up in KMail/ Kontact. I wonder what you all have done with this problem of Google blocking "less secure apps" on Monday May 30 2022?
I'm currently using POP3 access with "plain" authentication and SSL/TLS. But I expect to be blocked from reading/sending e-mail with KMail in a couple of days.
From what I can find online I only seem to have two options.
1) Switch to IMAP and use OAuth login.
I'm a bit nervous about this as don't have any experience with OAuth, and I have about 70k e-mails in my Gmail account, and I'm not sure how well Akonadi handles syncing that amount of e-mails these days - especially with all the funky IMAP folders that Gmail has.
2) Continue to use POP3 with an "app specific password" and two-factor authentification.
AFAIK POP3 works with Oauth2, at least on Thunderbird. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from Elesar, using openSUSE Leap 15.3)