As an aside, I've also just tried logging in to Gmail via IMAP.

It only worked for me after creating an app password (got error messages
about invalid credentials before that).

I appreciate that this isn't the issue with the widget but it's still
interesting (to me, at least!).


On Mon, 7 Dec 2020, 09:22 elParaguayo, <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
>>>
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