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| From | Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.mail.misc |
| Subject | Re: download email from gmail regularly |
| Date | 2024-01-28 13:44 +0000 |
| Organization | NOYB |
| Message-ID | <up5p7i.l54.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <87o7d75t8c.fsf@yaxenu.org> <MactN.256253$7sbb.216889@fx16.iad> <LNe4Yisf6xmpf=nuA@bongo-ra.co> |
Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Jan 2024 10:44:59 -0800
> Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Julieta Shem wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > This ``Sign In with Google'' means the downloader would always have to
> > > ask me for passwords? I could never just pull gmail without being asked
> > > for credentials? (Very annoying.)
> >
> > I've always just used POP with Gmail, IMAP occasionally too.
> > Starting a year or two back, they started requiring Oauth2, which means
> > a newer email client or falling back to a token for a password.
> > I used the instructions at
> > https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833 to generate the token,
> > replaced my password with the token and continued on using pop.gmail.com.
>
> Reading the link and https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185839 ,
> I believe you have to give Google a phone number for this to work. Do I
> have this right ?
No. That very ('Turn on 2-Step Verification') page explains how to
"Use other verification methods".
> Otherwise , I fail to see how this increases security. If someone has got
> your password then they also can follow the process and create a token. Also
> , if someone guesses the 16 character token then they get access to your
> emails. It could be that the token is more easily guessable than your
> password , depending on what processes you use to create passwords.
One can't "guess" a 16 character token. Theoretically it's crackable,
but it can't be guessed.
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