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|    Ralph Spitzner to Rinaldi    |
|    Re: Fetchmail, gmail and 2fa.    |
|    08 Dec 21 16:49:01    |
      From: rasp@spitzner.org              Rinaldi wrote on 12/7/21 7:26 PM:       > I'm currently using fetchmail to draw from various POP accounts and       distribute on my server using fetchmail, procmail, and dovecot. It has       worked flawlessly for several years going back to when imapd was the serving       daemon.       >       > I received notification that Gmail will be going to 2FA (two factor       authentication) as of December 14.       >       > Switching to 2FA at gmail results in a fetchmail authentication error.       Obviously the challenge/response required to log in is missing in fetchmail,       just the POP password is submitted.       >       > Does this signal the end of my current mail service and force us to use       webmail? If not, how can I satisfy gmail's need for 2FA via fetchmail? Is       there an alternative to fetchmail that will provide this authentication       requirement?       >       > Rinaldi              all good just generate an "application-specific" password an use that instead       of "your" password                      -rasp              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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