On Friday, 3 June 2022 09:53:22 BST Michael wrote: > On Friday, 3 June 2022 02:45:11 BST Dale wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > Early this morning Seamonkey could no longer fetch emails. It wouldn't > > accept the username and password. I did some searching and it seems > > that Google is disabling plain text username and password. Honestly, > > sounds like a good idea really. During my searches, most recommended > > OAuth2 so I switched to it. > > Err ... perhaps not? The use of a browser to delegate sign on is not > necessarily a good idea, because it introduces layers of complication and > with it potential vulnerabilities. Random explainer here: > > https://medium.com/securing/what-is-going-on-with-oauth-2-0-and-why-you-shou > ld-not-use-it-for-authentication-5f47597b2611 > > I recall some IMAP4 devs complaining about it, but Google pushed on > regardless. From the end of May if you want to login to Gmail you have no > option but to use OAuth2. I expect this will break some users login if they > have not disabled what Google calls "Less secure application access" and > shared with Google their mobile phone number and what other *private* > information Google wants to know, before it allows you to access your email > messages.
Would a practical alternative be to have all gmail messages forwarded to another account? I haven't looked into this, but I have a gmail account, which perhaps I could set up to forward (relay?) all incoming mail to my Zen account. -- Regards, Peter.
