From: BitTwister@mouse-potato.com   
      
   On Fri, 3 Jun 2022 01:37:10 -0000 (UTC), root wrote:   
   > root  wrote:   
   >> Chris Vine  wrote:   
   >>> On Thu, 2 Jun 2022 22:24:29 -0000 (UTC)   
   >>> root  wrote:   
   >>>> Rinaldi  wrote:   
   >>>> > On 6/2/22 16:16, Chris Vine wrote:   
   >>>> >   
   >>>> > poll pop.gmail.com with proto POP3 service 995   
   >>>> >         user '$USER' there with password '$PASSWD' is 'me' here ssl   
   >>>> >   
   >>>> > rinaldi   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Rinaldi please note:   
   >>>>  the oauth2 was supposed to start a few days ago. My name is   
   >>>>  early in the alphabet and I was hit this morning. It may be   
   >>>>  that your account, while now active, may be shut down soon.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>  To be on the safe side, try  to enable oauth2 now while   
   >>>>  you still have working account.   
   >>>   
   >>> Nonsense.  Instead of encouraging others to go down your dead end   
   >>> which you say you have spent 7.5 hours on, accept that what people have   
   >>> told you is right and get yourself an app password.  You will not get   
   >>> fetchmail to work any more with gmail without it.  If you want true 2   
   >>> factor authentication then you need to use a client like evolution or   
   >>> thunderbird, which support it.   
   >>   
   >> I was not saying that anything I did was right. I am saying that   
   >> yesterday Rinaldi's pop entry worked for me. Today it did not.   
   >> If you follow Google's instructions, you get to a point where   
   >> you can't access your account.   
   >>   
   >> I only urged Rinaldi to get the oauth2 work done now.   
   >>   
   >> I say here that your instructions for oauth2 DO WORK for   
   >> fetchmail.   
   >>   
   >> Maybe you can show me your line in .mailrc which includes   
   >> the new 16 character password?   
   >>   
   >   
   > OK, all is well. Whereas the password with four strings   
   > of four characters each separated by spaces works for   
   > fetchmail, the spaces must be eliminated in .mailrc.   
   >   
   > Just another google POS.   
      
   Weird, when google gave me the app pw, I just pasted it into files   
   needing it. None of which have spaces.   
      
   Yours might have worked if password was enclosed with/in quotes.   
      
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