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Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022

From	WaltS48 <schw01@invalid.net>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.software.thunderbird
Subject	Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022
Date	2022-03-04 20:25 -0500
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
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On 3/4/22 8:00 PM, Jasen Betts wrote:
> On 2022-03-04, The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 03/04/2022 02:51 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>> On 2022-03-04 23:39, The Real Bev wrote:
>>>> On 03/04/2022 01:10 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>>>> On 2022-03-04 21:57, The Real Bev wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> BUT google's messages seem to say that passwords will no longer work
>>>>>> with google apps.  WTF?  Google's website offers no enlightenment.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I resent being made to jump through hoops (opening an account in order
>>>>>> to ask a manufacturer a simple question about one of their products, for
>>>>>> example) in order to do things whose security is irrelevant.  This seems
>>>>>> like an even bigger nuisance.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Perhaps I should already know this stuff, but given the fact that most
>>>>>> of what I do I could post on a billboard with no problems, exactly WHO
>>>>>> am I protecting with all this crap?  </rant>
>>>>>
>>>>> You may know what you are doing, but millions do not. So google enforces
>>>>> settings for those millions - and you.
>>>>
>>>> The price is too high.
>>>
>>> You have no say in the matter :-p
>>
>> Unfortunately.  Voting is about as useful.
>>
>>>> I did find out something useful, though.  oath2whatever can't be
>>>> implemented for POP by Thunderbird, but it shows up for the accounts I
>>>> marked as IMAP.  SOME accounts I marked as both POP and IMAP at the
>>>> gmail website, and they seemed to work just fine.  I shall investigate
>>>> further.
>>>
>>> I use imap on all my accounts.
> 
>> I chose POP because I wanted to download mail to my computer and delete
>> it from the server.  The idea of having it floating around forever in
>> the cloud is unsettling.
> 
> I use smtp instead, this meant I has to set up a SMTP server on my
> home computer, and organise a domain name for it, then I set my gmail
> accout to forward all mail to my SMTP server.
> 

You can forward email to an SMTP server?

SMTP is for sending email, not receiving.

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How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 Andy Burnelli <spam@nospam.com> - 2022-03-04 16:57 +0000
  Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 Henk de Jong <newsgroup@nospam-hsdejong.nl> - 2022-03-04 18:55 +0100
    Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 Andy Burnelli <spam@nospam.com> - 2022-03-05 00:17 +0000
  Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2022-03-04 10:01 -0800
    Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 Andy Burnelli <spam@nospam.com> - 2022-03-05 00:18 +0000
      Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 WaltS48 <schw01@invalid.net> - 2022-03-04 20:22 -0500
        Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 Andy Burnelli <spam@nospam.com> - 2022-03-05 01:38 +0000
          Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 Christian Riechers <chriechers@netscape.net.invalid> - 2022-03-05 13:30 +0100
            Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 Andy Burnelli <spam@nospam.com> - 2022-03-05 15:47 +0000
  Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 Soviet_Mario <SovietMario@CCCP.MIR> - 2022-03-04 19:41 +0100
    Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 PietB <www.godfatherof.nl/@opt-in.invalid> - 2022-03-04 20:41 +0100
  Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2022-03-04 21:23 +0100
    Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2022-03-04 12:40 -0800
      Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2022-03-04 20:49 +0000
        Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2022-03-04 12:57 -0800
          Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2022-03-04 22:10 +0100
            Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2022-03-04 14:39 -0800
              Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2022-03-04 23:51 +0100
                Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 Big Al <Bears@invalid.com> - 2022-03-04 17:58 -0500
                Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2022-03-04 15:33 -0800
                Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 Jasen Betts <usenet@revmaps.no-ip.org> - 2022-03-05 01:00 +0000
                Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 WaltS48 <schw01@invalid.net> - 2022-03-04 20:25 -0500
                Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2022-03-04 21:20 -0800
                Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2022-03-05 09:22 +0100
                Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 Jasen Betts <usenet@revmaps.no-ip.org> - 2022-03-05 22:09 +0000
                Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2022-03-05 09:27 +0100
                Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 "Gary R. Schmidt" <grschmidt@acm.org> - 2022-03-05 21:57 +1100
                Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2022-03-05 13:11 +0100
              Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 Nobody <jock@soccer.com> - 2022-03-04 16:18 -0800
              Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 Andy Burnelli <spam@nospam.com> - 2022-03-05 00:55 +0000
                Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2022-03-04 18:57 -0600
                Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 Andy Burnelli <spam@nospam.com> - 2022-03-05 01:28 +0000
                Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2022-03-05 11:18 +0000
                Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 Andy Burnelli <spam@nospam.com> - 2022-03-05 15:36 +0000
                Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2022-03-05 16:04 +0000
                Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2022-03-05 18:58 +0100
                Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2022-03-05 18:47 +0000
                Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2022-03-05 21:21 +0100
              Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2022-03-05 11:10 +0000
                Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2022-03-06 09:11 -0800
                Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2022-03-06 12:46 -0500
                Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2022-03-06 21:23 -0800
          Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2022-03-04 21:26 +0000
            Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2022-03-04 23:05 +0100
            Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2022-03-04 15:23 -0800
              Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2022-03-05 09:31 +0100
              Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2022-03-05 11:20 +0000
            Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 Andy Burnelli <spam@nospam.com> - 2022-03-05 00:59 +0000
              Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 WaltS48 <schw01@invalid.net> - 2022-03-04 20:27 -0500
                Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 Andy Burnelli <spam@nospam.com> - 2022-03-05 01:48 +0000
                Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2022-03-05 11:26 +0000
                Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 Andy Burnelli <spam@nospam.com> - 2022-03-05 15:30 +0000
                Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2022-03-05 15:39 +0000
                Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 Andy Burnelli <spam@nospam.com> - 2022-03-05 22:37 +0000
                Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 Andy Burnelli <spam@nospam.com> - 2022-07-23 10:03 +0100
      Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2022-03-04 22:07 +0100
        Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 WaltS48 <schw01@invalid.net> - 2022-03-04 16:26 -0500
        Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2022-03-04 14:15 -0800
          Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2022-03-05 00:00 +0100
        Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 Andy Burnelli <spam@nospam.com> - 2022-03-05 01:05 +0000
          Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2022-03-05 09:39 +0100
            Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 Andy Burnelli <spam@nospam.com> - 2022-03-05 15:24 +0000
    Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 Andy Burnelli <spam@nospam.com> - 2022-03-05 00:19 +0000
    Re: How to recover from Google dropping password support on May 30th 2022 Andy Burnelli <spam@nospam.com> - 2022-03-05 01:02 +0000

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