Kai, Apologies! I hadn't seen that your email showed that the code worked. My phone just showed your first line "I'm not using it, so I leave that up to OP." and hid the rest.
Now that we know it's not a security issue, we can do some more digging. On Monday, 7 December 2020 at 08:00:07 UTC elParaguayo wrote: > I did say it was a guess! > > I haven't used Gmail via IMAP for a very long time and I have seen posts > in other groups where security changes have caused issues. > > However, your experiences are clearly more recent than mine so I think OP > can safely disregard my comment. > > > On Sun, 6 Dec 2020, 21:27 Kai Stian Olstad, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sun, Dec 06, 2020 at 10:37:19AM -0800, elParaguayo wrote: >> > My guess is this app doesn't work because Google updated security so >> you >> > can't use standard username and password because it's not secure. They >> used >> > to have the ability to allow access to less secure apps but I think you >> now >> > have to generate a separate password for the app. Could be wrong though! >> >> I don't understand how you arrived to that conclusion since your commands >> did >> work without the slef. part. >> I also use IMAP against Gmail with offlineimap, Neomutt and Thunderbird >> on a >> daily basis. >> >> -- >> Kai Stian Olstad >> >> -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "qtile-dev" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qtile-dev/20201206212716.pmdt5chav2lmgqqc%40olstad.com >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qtile-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qtile-dev/888da12d-8a34-4593-a494-a0d83bea04aan%40googlegroups.com.
