Re: Alpine/Gmail/Imap expert needed.

[Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net>]

Max,
I began this thread stating that a source is creating a mailbox door for 
this solution from me.
To answer your first question no. there. is. not..no solutions that 
might not otherwise see me in Hospital.
I would not have asked about alpine without first evaluating options 
firmly  for the body I have and the tools I can safely use.
If you are not one solid in alpine configuration, what possible value did  You 
think  You could bring to this discussion?
I am personally profoundly tired of people suggesting, intentionally or 
not, 
that if My body worked differently, I could do this,  that and the other.
your generalized statement, speaking personally, is what fortifies 
google's please experience disabilities as we define the term, or you do 
not get in the door.
none of your suggestions are helpful supportive or positive.
Thank you but no thank you.
as you said, you know nothing about alpine, therefore you do not have 
anything  of value to contribute to my situation save to, regardless 
of intention, remind me of what a freak I am considered to be..getting that 
enough from google thanks.



On Mon, 27 Nov 2023, Max Nikulin wrote:

> On 27/11/2023 08:54, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> >  I rely on a shell service, because for me personally my adaptive tools are
> >  not supported..certainly not in Linux.
>
> Perhaps Alpine is still not the only option for you.
>
> Is there mail applications compatible with assistive technologies and native 
> to the OS you have installed? If they exist then they likely support IMAP.
>
> Mail is quite sensitive data. A virtual machine may allow to run all 
> necessary tools locally. I admit it may be too complicated. Perhaps Alpine 
> may be installed using MinGW (assuming Windows as the host OS).
>
> >  I am also hoping the  two factor authentication can be done via emai
>
> An application password is a way to avoid two factor authentication 
> specifically for IMAP access.
>
> Time OTP (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6238 TOTP: Time-Based 
> One-Time Password Algorithm) is widely supported. It relies on a secret 
> shared between server and client. There are even python libraries to generate 
> authentication codes. It is supported by password managers. I can not suggest 
> a particular one due to your specific requirements. Keeping the secret on the 
> same device is possible, it is just less secure.
>
> Google does not support email as a second factor. U2F hardware tokens might 
> be an option.
>
> Email is hardly an option for second factor for authentication to a email 
> service.