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Re: [LUG] Email on raspbian

 

On 14/03/16 11:35, Steven CÃtà wrote:
I've not tried it, but Thunderbird is called out specifically in the
blog post as being one of the clients that doesn't work. Now, that blog
post is a year and a half old, so Thunderbird may have added OAuth2
support since then, but unless it has, it shouldn't work either.

On Mon, 14 Mar 2016 at 10:12 Tom <madtom1999@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:madtom1999@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

    On 14/03/16 09:56, Steven CÃtà wrote:
     > This link should explain pretty much everything you need.
     >
    http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2014/07/more-secure-gmail-authentication.html
     >
     > Basically the short of it is that they only allow OAuth2 by
    default, but
     > you can change that setting on gmail.
     >
     > On Sat, 12 Mar 2016 at 16:13 Tom <madtom1999@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    <mailto:madtom1999@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
     > <mailto:madtom1999@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    <mailto:madtom1999@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>> wrote:
     >
     >     Trying to configure Claws on raspbian on the Pi but Gmail
    rejects it as
     >     an insecure device.
     >     Any tricks to get past this?
     >     Tom te tom te tom
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    I find it strange that Thunderbird is OK but IceOwl(?) and Claws using
    the same comms methods arent
    Tom te tom te tom

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I've used thunderbird for years and I dont remember changing the security level for it - either my memory has faded or they just let me carry on using it and set the security level for it.
Tom

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