command line email clients and gmail.com

[Jude DaShiell]

I wasn't able to do so without a huge amount of inconvenience.  Here's
the rest of that story too.  I went as far as enabling two-step
authentication in February of 2018.  Last week I tried logging into my
google account.  My password was complex and 20 characters in length the
last time I logged into that account successfully.  Last week the
password had been changed and whoever did that had it shortened to 14
characters.  I ended up deleting my account.  If I ever create another
google account I will not use any of google's enhanced security features
since all of them only provide the authorized users a huge amount of
hassle and are trivial for hackers to crack.

On Sun, 10 Jun 2018, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:

> Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2018 20:14:48
> From: Chuck Hallenbeck <chuckhallenbeck at gmail.com>
> To: "speakup at linux-speakup.org" <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
> Subject: command line email clients and gmail.com
>
> Hi folks,
>
> On my archlinux system with its command line  environment, I have three
> email clients able to send mail directly to my gmail smtp server at
> port 587.
>
> 1. mutt with msmtp.
>
> 2. alpine
>
> 3. edbrowse.
>
> All three methods work only when my google account  security settings
> have enabled something called "Allow access by less secure apps.
>
> Recently I have been asked by google to disable that feature for
> security reasons, but doing so prevents my outgoing mail from being
> accepted by smtp.gmail.com.
>
> Anybody else able to use  gmail.com with that security feature
> disabled, as google advises?  Suggestions appreciated.
>
> Chuck
>
>
>

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