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Re: download email from gmail regularly

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Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> writes:

> It seems Gmail is decomissioning username-password authentication.
> Clients will have to use "Sign in with Google".  What happens to all
> download-email programs?  I'm looking for one, in fact.  If I want to
> pull my mail via POP or IMAP today, what would I have to use?
>
> I'd like to read my mail with Gnus (using djb's Maildir storage).  I
> can't stand Gmail any longer.  I'm done.
>
> (*) Other questions
>
> 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.)

Here's another option I might have.  I could just forward my Gmail
e-mail to another mailbox and then pull my email from this other
mailbox.  But this other mailbox would have to allow me some easy
authentication and also let me SMTP-send mail from it.

I don't have an SMTP server myself.  To do that with, say, Proton Mail,
I'd have to buy an account because there seems to be no IMAP access to
it without a paid account.

If I were to host my own mail, I suppose I should use it to just get
mail from Gmail and not use it to send mail out to the world because I
can't devote my life to SMTP deliveries right now.  So I'd need a way to
SMTP-send mail out through Gmail somehow.  (I wonder if that's possible
still.)

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download email from gmail regularly Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> - 2024-01-27 00:51 -0300
  Re: download email from gmail regularly Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> - 2024-01-27 00:55 -0300
    Re: download email from gmail regularly Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2024-01-27 02:23 -0400
      Re: download email from gmail regularly Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2024-01-27 17:00 +1000
      Re: download email from gmail regularly Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2024-01-27 14:38 +0000
        Re: download email from gmail regularly Andrzej Adam Filip <anfi@onet.eu> - 2024-01-27 15:43 +0100
        Re: download email from gmail regularly Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> - 2024-01-27 11:59 -0300
        Re: download email from gmail regularly Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2024-01-27 10:36 -0800
        Re: download email from gmail regularly not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-01-28 07:23 +1000
  Re: download email from gmail regularly Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2024-01-27 14:29 +0000
    Re: download email from gmail regularly Eric Gillespie <epg@pretzelnet.org> - 2024-02-01 19:00 -0600
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