On Mon, 1 Dec 2025, Riku Virtanen via Alpine-info wrote:
Hi,
I am using Oauth. I did not earlier turn on App password, and Google has
closed the opportunity to create new App passwords during this year.
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255?hl=en
My problem remains and I cannot log into one Google account with my Linux
Alpine. Via Firefox, I can open the account, but Alpine does not connect to
it. Is there anything what can I do?
You can get gmail to forward that email to either one of your
other gmail accounts, or to any other email account you have.
On Sun, 28 Sep 2025, Lucio Chiappetti via Alpine-info wrote:
On Sun, 28 Sep 2025, Riku Virtanen via Alpine-info wrote:
My Alpine is connected to three Gmail accounts.
Two of three accounts work normally. One works in Windows machine but in
my Fedora Linux machine, it asks authentization.
Are you using OAuth2 or "app password" ?
I personally avoid Gmail as the plague. I get its normal mail via
forwarding to another provider and fetchmail, and I use "app password".
App password (different from your interactive password) requires you set up
2FA (two factor authentication) and get a special app password from their
site, and copy it promptly because it is saved nowhere for further access.
Then you can configure alpine to access gmail site/folders with your
username, and the first time you access it, allow alpine to store it in its
master-password-protected password list. I imagine you have to use
different app password for each of your gmail accounts (I have only one on
gmail but two others elsewhere). Be sure you supply the right one for each
account. Alpine can store multiple account passwords, so in each future
access you type just the master password once.
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