From: BitTwister@mouse-potato.com   
      
   On Fri, 3 Jun 2022 00:29:07 -0000 (UTC), root wrote:   
   > Chris Vine  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> 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.   
      
   As I misunderstand it I thought mailx just reads your local system mail   
   box file and has nothing to do with outside the system mail.   
      
   Currently fetchmail sucks down any email and automagically sends to   
   my local username account mail and will be in /var/mail/local_user_login_here   
   .   
   easy enough to test for local mail for me by doing a   
      mail -s "local testshot" $LOGNAME < /dev/null   
      /var/mail/will have the testshot message and mail   
      
   I run Mageia Release 8 amd mailx is linked to mail   
   $ ls -l /usr/bin/mailx   
   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Feb 13  2020 /usr/bin/mailx -> ../../bin/mail   
      
      
   > 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   
      
   Cannot help there I have no ~/.mailrc   
   going to guess the set mta command would be used to get user mail from   
   another system.   
      
   Again. fetchmail pulls down your email from gmail.com and should be in   
   your local mailbox. No need for the .mailrc to also use gmail.com   
      
   And Yes. any "insecure" app will have to provide you gamial id and 16 digit   
   application gmail password to access its mail server.   
      
      
   > where the server and password is set for mailx doesn't work   
   > with either old or new entries.   
   >   
      
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