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   From: NoEMail@home.org   
      
   Chris Vine  wrote:   
   > On Thu, 2 Jun 2022 21:51:48 -0000 (UTC)   
   > root  wrote:   
   >> Chris Vine  wrote:   
   >> > On Thu, 2 Jun 2022 20:41:34 -0000 (UTC)   
   >> > root  wrote:   
   >> >> I have been trying to authorize fetchmail via popserver.   
   >> >   
   >> > Go to your google settings, choose 2 factor authentication and then get   
   >> > an app password.  Enter that app password in your fetchmailrc file.   
   >>   
   >> Could you please be more specific: I have chose 2 factor authorization,   
   >> I have enabled it on my android phone. What I don't follow is   
   >> "get an app password".   
   >>   
   >> BTW, during the process of enabling the android phone, it   
   >> says you can skip this on reliable devices (such as your computer)   
   >> but that is not true.   
   >   
   > Start up your browser on your slackware computer and go to google, click   
   > on "Manage your google account", click on "Security", make sure you   
   > hve selected 2 factor authentication and look for the "App passwords"   
   > entry, choose a name (which can be anything and is just something to   
   > identify it for you) and generate a password.  I use the same app   
   > password for fetchmail, postmail and mailx.   
   >   
   > I can't say what you have done wrong and your last paragraph makes   
   > no sense.  Just relax.  It looks as if you are working yourself up.   
      
      
      
   FIXED fetchmail. Many thanks for that help, but mailx still does   
   not work.   
      
   When I got the Generated app password (set of four 4 character strings)   
   there was an email entry: securesall@gmail.com with a dotted out   
   password. Did that have meaning?   
      
   Mailx is not fetchmail, does it require its own app password.   
      
   What makes me ask is that the password entry in .mailrc   
   set mta=smtps://MYNAME:MYOLDPASSWORD@smtp.gmail.com:465   
      
   where the server and password is set for mailx doesn't work   
   with either old or new entries.   
      
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