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  • Gmail + OAuth without App Password and 2-Step Verification!! :-)

    From Chupo@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jul 10 23:34:26 2022
    There is a way Eudora could still be used with gmail without App
    Password and/or 2-Step Verification.

    By using Email OAuth 2.0 Proxy (which is Python program) Eudora can
    still be used exactly as before.

    I tested both POP and IMAP access (even both in the same time) and
    everything is working without problems.

    Here is the link to the proxy:
    https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy

    Two weeks ago the program still didn't support POP but author added it
    upon my request and it works very well:

    https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy/issues/34

    The configuration takes some time but once everything is set up Eudora
    again works as before without enabling App Password which requires
    enabling 2-Step Verification and using a phone.

    My suggestion is to first read through all closed issues and to use
    some test gmail account to see how everything works. I was using
    Windows 7 in virtual machine + Thunderbird + Eudora + TCPView +
    Wireshark to debug the problem with Eudora + IMAP.

    The proxy can run on the same computer as Eudora or on another computer
    in the local network - it can even be Raspberry Pi or Orange Pi PC.

    Porting the program to Python 2.x (for those who are still using
    Windows XP) is work in progress.
    --
    Chupo

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  • From Mark Ritschard@21:1/5 to Chupo on Thu Jan 26 07:49:29 2023
    On Sunday, July 10, 2022 at 3:34:33 PM UTC-6, Chupo wrote:
    There is a way Eudora could still be used with gmail without App
    Password and/or 2-Step Verification.

    By using Email OAuth 2.0 Proxy (which is Python program) Eudora can
    still be used exactly as before.

    I tested both POP and IMAP access (even both in the same time) and
    everything is working without problems.

    Here is the link to the proxy:
    https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy

    Two weeks ago the program still didn't support POP but author added it
    upon my request and it works very well:

    https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy/issues/34

    The configuration takes some time but once everything is set up Eudora
    again works as before without enabling App Password which requires
    enabling 2-Step Verification and using a phone.

    My suggestion is to first read through all closed issues and to use
    some test gmail account to see how everything works. I was using
    Windows 7 in virtual machine + Thunderbird + Eudora + TCPView +
    Wireshark to debug the problem with Eudora + IMAP.

    The proxy can run on the same computer as Eudora or on another computer
    in the local network - it can even be Raspberry Pi or Orange Pi PC.

    Porting the program to Python 2.x (for those who are still using
    Windows XP) is work in progress.
    --
    Chupo

    This is great! The proxy is installed an listening on my Windows 10 box, but Eudora throws an error: "Error getting network address for 'localhost:1995'; Cause: host not found"
    How did you configure Eudora to get around this error?

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