[Alpine-info] PINERC file for accessing Gmail

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

Thank you, Andrew.

Can (X)OAUTH2 be configured in the command line only?

I am trying to come up with a .pinerc file that can be generic that I could
provide many blind people.  They have mostly moved on to mutt because of
the additional password requirements of alpine, but some remain but most if
not all are having trouble since google gmail changed how they handle
passwords, something in the pinerc file I had been providing them no longer
works, and they get strange errors.

Thanks,

David


On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 11:36 AM Andrew C Aitchison <andrew at aitchison.me.uk>
wrote:


> On Sat, 14 Jan 2023, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:

>

> > Does anyone have an example of a .pinerc file that can directly download

> > imap mail from Gmail using an application specific password?

> >

> > I had such a file but it no longer works.

>

> I am not sure that application specific passwords are still supported by

> google; they have been trying to replace them for some years.

>

> https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en

> tells you how to create and use them. Following those instructions should

> confirm that you still have an application specific password.

>

> Failing that, I have just confirmed that the (X)OAUTH2 support in

> Alpine allows me to set up and *read* my gmail via imap.

> I have not tested *downloading* this email.

>

> --

> Andrew C. Aitchison                      Kendal, UK

>                     andrew at aitchison.me.uk

>

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