[Alpine-info] Continued gmail difficulties

[gajs-f0el at dea.spamcon.org]

I have tried, using help Eduardo offered in an earlier response, to start afresh on saving passwords to disk. But I can't tell whether or not I've met with success. Here is the reason. Each time I try to check e-mail on one of my two gmail accounts, I am prompted to enter a password. And each time I enter the password, I am asked whether I want to save the password to disk, I hit "y." And I have to do this 3 times each time I try to check e-mail for each folder under each of the two accounts before the folder I am trying to check will open and display the e-mails contained in it (on the first 2 tries I see the message "Retrying PLAIN authentication after [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Invalid credentials (Failure)"). This development has made dealing with e-mail quite an onerous task.

Assuming I am in a minority of Alpine users in confronting these issues, what could I be doing wrong here? I followed the directives presented on the "Authorizing Alpine Access to Gmail Email Services" page and set up projects for each account. I saved the client-id and client-secret per the instructions. I entered the access code and pasted it at the prompt as directed. My version of Alpine is 2.25.1, gotten via the Void Linux repositories.

Help resolving these issues will be much appreciated. I am unhappy with these gmail developments and began a month ago planning to migrate from gmail for that reason and due to privacy concerns. But I need a way to continue using these accounts while I complete my migration plan.