I'm trying to set up Claws email client.
It seems that Gmail no longer supports 'less-secure' apps.
Does this make it impossible to use Gmail accounts on Claws, or is there another way?
Jim the Geordie <jim@jimxscott.co.uk> wrote:
I'm trying to set up Claws email client.
It seems that Gmail no longer supports 'less-secure' apps.
You can indeed no longer use 'less-secure' apps, but you can use 'App passwords' instead. That basically means that instead of your Google
account password, you use a special generated password, just for this purpose.
I use (Google) 'App passwords' in Thunderbird to access my Gmail
accounts.
See 'Learn more' on <https://myaccount.google.com/apppasswords>
Does this make it impossible to use Gmail accounts on Claws, or is there
another way?
On 16/01/2025 13:09, Frank Slootweg wrote:
Jim the Geordie <jim@jimxscott.co.uk> wrote:
I'm trying to set up Claws email client.
It seems that Gmail no longer supports 'less-secure' apps.
You can indeed no longer use 'less-secure' apps, but you can use 'App passwords' instead. That basically means that instead of your Google account password, you use a special generated password, just for this purpose.
I use (Google) 'App passwords' in Thunderbird to access my Gmail accounts.
See 'Learn more' on <https://myaccount.google.com/apppasswords>
Does this make it impossible to use Gmail accounts on Claws, or is there >> another way?
Still can't do it.
It all seems a bit of a phart.
There's no SSL, which Claws mentions in its documentation for v4.3.
All I'm trying to do is find an email client which will do what
Thunderbird does without it using a big chunk of memory (and is free and
will take 4 addresses of various kinds) and makes the tea and lays
golden eggs :)
Jim the Geordie <jim@jimxscott.co.uk> wrote:
On 16/01/2025 13:09, Frank Slootweg wrote:
Jim the Geordie <jim@jimxscott.co.uk> wrote:
I'm trying to set up Claws email client.
It seems that Gmail no longer supports 'less-secure' apps.
You can indeed no longer use 'less-secure' apps, but you can use 'App >>> passwords' instead. That basically means that instead of your Google
account password, you use a special generated password, just for this
purpose.
I use (Google) 'App passwords' in Thunderbird to access my Gmail
accounts.
See 'Learn more' on <https://myaccount.google.com/apppasswords>
Does this make it impossible to use Gmail accounts on Claws, or is there >>>> another way?
Still can't do it.
It all seems a bit of a phart.
There's no SSL, which Claws mentions in its documentation for v4.3.
You mean Claws does not support SSL?
All I'm trying to do is find an email client which will do what
Thunderbird does without it using a big chunk of memory (and is free and
will take 4 addresses of various kinds) and makes the tea and lays
golden eggs :)
An older version of Thunderbird? My 60.9.0 version uses about 130 MB memory, which isn't small, but is about the same size as (Windows) File Explorer.
BTW, as you're using Betterbird to post to Usenet, can't you just use
that for e-mail as well?
I'm trying to set up Claws email client. It seems that
Gmail no longer supports 'less-secure' apps.
Does this make it impossible to use Gmail accounts on
Claws, or is there another way?
All I'm trying to do is find an email client which will do
what Thunderbird does without it using a big chunk of
memory (and is free and will take 4 addresses of various
kinds) and makes the tea and lays golden eggs :)
Jim the Geordie:
I'm trying to set up Claws email client. It seems that
Gmail no longer supports 'less-secure' apps.
Nope, it still supports them, via so called app passwords.
Does this make it impossible to use Gmail accounts on
Claws, or is there another way?
I think not. I myself access Gmail with Sylpheed, of which
Claws is a branch.
My complete Gmail settings for Sylpheed are:
Basic:
Server for receiving: imap.gmail.com
SMTP server : smtp.gmail.com
User ID : // my e-mail address
Password : // my Gmail app password
Receive:
IMAP4:
Authentification method: PLAIN
Send:
Authentification:
SMTP Authentifiation : // check
Authentification method:
User ID : // empty
Password : // empty
SSL:
IMAP4: Use SSL for IMAP4 connection
SMTP : Use SSL for SMTP connection
This works in Sylpheed 3.7.0. In some of the later versions
they tried to add some support for this new abominable
authentification method involving a browswer, which never
worked for me, so I had to stay with 3.7.0.
All I'm trying to do is find an email client which will do
what Thunderbird does without it using a big chunk of
memory (and is free and will take 4 addresses of various
kinds) and makes the tea and lays golden eggs :)
Have you considered ditching Gmail altogether? There are
many other e-mail providers, small and big, free and paid.
And there are great tools for migrating IMAP mailboxes.
Try Pegasus Mail: <https://www.pmail.com/index.htm>
There is no SSL in Claws
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In message <16btug4mmc7f6.1vec5pmii0sxc$.dlg@40tude.net>, Jim The
Geordie <jim@jimXscott.co.uk> writes
There is no SSL in Claws
It's probably possible to get around that by using Stunnel as an
intermediary between Claws and the mail server:
https://www.stunnel.org/index.html
SSL works with Claws:
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/ich-suche-eine-englischsprachi-y1ZgXp2yR8CuqwT2ds.Chw
On 18/01/2025 15:22, Michael Logies wrote:
SSL works with Claws:Apart from the fact that there is no mention of SSL anywhere in Ver 4.3,
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/ich-suche-eine-englischsprachi-y1ZgXp2yR8CuqwT2ds.Chw
I have managed to set up two addresses to run on TLS.
The problem still comes when trying to set up two Gmail addresses,
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