Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts
On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 12:33:36 -0800
conover@rahul.net (John Conover) wrote:
> paulf@quillandmouse.com writes:
> > On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 11:58:09 -0500
> > Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 09:44:24 -0500
> > > "Paul M. Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > > Thanks for the info. Mozilla Foundation is seriously annoying me
> > > > lately.
> > > >
> > > > Can anyone recommend another MUA which uses mbox format and is
> > > > relatively easy to configure?
> > >
> > > Sylpheed?
> > >
> > > Celejar
> > >
> >
> > It's starting to look that way. Actually, I'm looking at claws-mail.
> >
>
> Yea, and claws-mail is not compatible with Gmail's oauth2, which is
> now required by Google, (as of this month,) and Thunderbird is
? I'm still downloading my Gmail email via POP3 with getmail, without
OAuth2. For a couple of years now, Google has been pushing OAuth2, but
has still allowed ordinary POP3 / IMAP access to email using "app
specific passwords." Has something changed recently?
https://support.google.com/mail/thread/23019816/how-can-i-continue-to-use-pop-based-email-after-oauth-is-required-next-year
> compatible, but no longer supports local mbox delivery for a LAN.
FWIW, BTW, getmail (which does support mbox delivery) does have support
for Gmail's OAuth2 (in case you want / need to use it) via its
getmail-gmail-xoauth-tokens script:
https://www.bytereef.org/howto/oauth2/getmail.html
You can also find detailed instructions in the file
"getmailrc-examples.gz", in Debian's getmail6 package.
Celejar
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