No I haven't done that, I just got another blocked email from gmail. I'll try the link you gave.
Regards, David On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 11:05 AM Dan Ritter <dsr-m...@randomstring.org> wrote: > > D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: > > For several months now, I haven't been able to receive mail with mutt. > > General, currently useless suggestion: don't let this sort of > thing go past a day or two. If you haven't solved it then, ask. > > > When regrettably, I go into X Windows (MATE), I use webmail and see > > that google has blocked an attempt to log in and proudly says that the > > user (me) had my password. I'm guessing since it always happens when > > I make little changes in .muttrc to see if I can get mail with mutt, > > that it's because of mutt. > > I'm guessing that you are trying to use mutt to access GMail via > IMAP. > > Is that correct? > > Did you ask Google to set up an application-specific password > for mutt? It's in your Google security settings. > > https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en > > -dsr-
