This won't be the answer your looking for but I would suggest switching to ZOHO mail. Gmail has become more and more intrusive. It wants to know all of your email clients and if it's not one that has some deal with them (I'm guessing) it won't work. I still have lingering gmail accounts that I check on my phone but most have my traffic and all of the important traffic is now through ZOHO. It's business oriented (so very clean) and free at least for private use (I don't know their agreement).
Anyway, I think you should get a "Someone has your password" email in your account. Check via the web portal. I think (if I remember correctly), you can tell it that it was you (dbl check the location) and it will give you instructions on you to add the device to your account. It may not always work. I don't think it works for Linux. It'll work with Mac, Android and the more common stuff. Good Luck On Tuesday, 22 August 2017 15:33:34 UTC-5, XOR42 wrote: > > I have 3 Gmail accounts set up in my K-9 Android Email Manager. > As far as I can see they have the same setups except, of course, for the > email and password. > Two accounts work as expected since they setup 1+ years ago. > > However, a third account has ALWAYS failed from day 1. Any viewing of the > setup or attempts to log in are followed by a Google email notification to > my recovery email account of an attempt being made to log into an account > with an "insecure app". It says nothing more but since the third account > is the only one that doesn't work and the notification comes after any > attempt to use it, I certain it is that account. > > All the while, the other two Gmail accounts bring me my mail. > > Despite having the same settings as the other two accounts, I have tried: > 1. Changing the password in case Gmail didn't like it. (clutching at > straws in the dark). > 2. Changing the password transmission security (None, TLS, blah blah). No > change. > 3. Deleted the account entirely, re-entered it, and used the same settings > as the other two. No joy. > > I'm out of thoughts at this point. If Gmail doesn't like K-9 why does it > accept logins from the other two GMail accounts? > > Scratching my brain cells, I (very vaguely) recall, a long time ago, > possibly having found and visited some esoteric page somewhere within > Google's security pages that dealt with this exact issue and there was an > esoteric option to allow a specific account to have access. It wasn't > titled as being within the context of an "insecure app" but I think it was > more like a special thing you had to do for some accounts to approve them > for use. After a few attempts, it did. I don't know if that was for one, > both, or neither of the two accounts that do work. Just thought I'd add > that for its minimal worth. > > So, does approving "Insecure Access" do so for > (a) ALL my many apps connecting to Google > (b) ALL accounts on just my K-9 app > c) Just this one failing account on K-9 > It's a really poor message for such an important issue. > > Parting thought and suggestion for Google: When I get the attempted access > by an "insecure app" email from Google each time the account is denied its > attempt at a log in, there is absolutely no mention of which app (K9, I > presume) nor of the email account. With 5 different email clients on our > PC's and phones and 30+ emails for me, my wife, daughter, family, and > various hobbies, that is useless and can only be of value if I am only > using the unnamed account AND just so happen to see the recovery email > within minutes of its use. After that, who knows which of all those > accounts and email programs it is talking about. Man, that's really, > really bad programming! > > Many thanks for any assistance. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "K-9 Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to k-9-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
