On 2020-02-07 15:51:22 (-0800), Philip Paeps wrote:
On 2020-02-07 14:32:50 (-0800), Stuart Henderson wrote:
On 2020/02/07 13:41, Philip Paeps via mailop wrote:
I think the only viable solution will be to set up forwarders
Or pass it through a proxy which knows how to authenticate. I'm not
aware of any that have been written yet but it shouldn't be too
complex.
I just spent an instructive half hour in a web browser trying to jump
through the hoops to set this up. Before you can create a "token",
you need to create a "credential". In order to create that you need a
"project". And then you need a "application consent screen".
All of this to fetch email unattended.
This is the very definition of "user hostile".
And reportedly, the "tokens" can expire. So supposedly, this needs to
be done regularly?
Furthermore: this only fixes _retrieving_ email (and then only IMAP,
because it doesn't seem to work for POP3). Presumably similar hoops
need to be jumped to send email through smtp.gmail.com. What fun!
Progress is hard. I am getting old. I should invest in a good lawn
chair. And a lawn! :-)
Philip
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Philip Paeps
Senior Reality Engineer
Alternative Enterprises
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