Re: Alpine/Gmail/Imap expert needed.

[Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net>]

Speaking only to your p.s.
I rely on a shell service, because for me personally my adaptive tools are 
not supported..certainly not in Linux.
I am also hoping the  two factor authentication can be done via emai 
otherwise that means finding a third party, cannot use  a smart phone, 
again due to the associated speech.
Your surprise is surprising given you are living no one's life but your 
own.
as they say walk a mile in another person's shoes before you decide you 
know what solutions are possible for them.



On Mon, 27 Nov 2023, Max Nikulin wrote:

> On 27/11/2023 07:01, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> >  Alpine 2.5, which I recall has a tool that allows one to authenticate to
> >  gmail
>
> When tho factor authentication is enabled for the google account, it is 
> possible to generate an application password. Almost any mail application 
> supporting IMAP should work with a such password. It eliminates OAuth2 flow 
> with authentication through a web page and requiring JavaScript and 
> registered OAuth2 application. An application password is long and 
> inconvenient to type, but it is supposed to be saved by the application.
>
> Enabling two factor authentication requires a phone, but as soon as it is 
> enabled, a Time OTP second factor may be enabled and the phone number may be 
> removed from the account. There is a number of applications supporting TOTP, 
> there is no vendor lock-in to Google authenticator.
>
> Sorry, I do not use Alpine, so I can not help with it configuration.
>
> P.S. I am surprised that people relies on external shell services when an 
> application may be installed locally. In the case of IMAP mail is stored on 
> the mail server anyway.