On 04/25/2016 08:39 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > Your normal gmail password is used for IMAP.
Actually, no, unless you explicitly tell Google to allow "less-secure" authentication. Otherwise you are required to set up a special, application-specific password. https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en > Warning: don't use the basic imaplib. IMAP is a miserable protocol, > and imap lib is too thin a wrapper. It'll make you bleed from the ears > and wish you were dead. Use imapclient or imaplib2. I've used both > (with Gmail's IMAP server), and IMO both are pretty good. Either one > is miles ahead of plain imaplib. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
