On 17/03/2022 18:51, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
Greetings,
since quite some time, longe before "converting" to Gentoo, I've used
"fetchmail" and "ssmtp" to retrieve and send mail via my Google account.
Some time after I had all set up, Google started nagging about my not-
so-secure access to my mail account via just userid and password. Up to
now I simply ignored that. But now Google told me to only allow "Sign
in with Google" or OAuth 2.0 after 2022-05-30.
I've seen quite a few people with "@gmail" or "@googlemail" addresses on
this list, so others might have a similar problem, but maybe nobody but
me is using this Google + "fetchmail" + "ssmtp" combination. Any ideas
how to get OAuth into this set-up?
I don't use fetchmail (just an email client), but fetchmail 7 apparently
supports oauth2. It's masked in portage because it's still alpha
(net-mail/fetchmail-7.0.0_alpha9-r1).
And then read:
http://mmogilvi.users.sourceforge.net/software/oauthbearer.html
Which also seems to contain Gentoo instructions. Apparently, you don't
need to apply the patches for fetchmail 6 if you instead unmask and
emerge the 7.0.0 alpha version.
