[kwlug-disc] Using mutt with oauth2

[Mikalai Birukou]

> On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 2:22 PM Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc 
> <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org <mailto:kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>> wrote:
>
>     I think Gmail may have disabled user/password login a while ago
>
>
> No, Gmail still allows user name and password login. I use it for a 
> notification tray
> widget to let me know that I have unread email. Also allows me to use 
> get-mail
> to archive my email locally, as well as mutt (though I don't do this 
> often).
>
> Gmail will bug you occasionally that you are using insecure methods 
> and such, but
> I do ignore them.

My understanding is that gmail will stop doing this, this year.

I open thunderbird to backup my account, username/password isn't 
accepted. I use my own domain with gmail.

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