[CentOS] Centos 8 Mate?

Jonathan Billings billings at negate.org
Fri Oct 18 18:33:16 UTC 2019


On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 12:34:59PM -0400, Scott Robbins wrote:
> Mutt does work with gmail. Hrrm, I'm looking I see I do have the password
> used in my msmtprc file. If one just uses a very simple muttrc file file,
> it will also work but require the password.

Of course I'm aware that mutt an use IMAP and SMTP passwords.

So, there are hosted Gmail services, and you can turn on/off certain
settings.  One of the settings you can turn off is App Passwords
(which means you'd have to use your main password for IMAP/SMTP) and
it is considered a security risk to have IMAP/SMTP passwords enabled,
so I have it turned off.

Most high-level email clients let you set up authentication by using
Google's OAuth2 endpoint.  Mutt has some very minimal support for
this, but it requires creating your own custom google client IDs and
secrets, and I don't have access to the domain to do that.

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Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>


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