Subject: Re: Posts from gmane no longer allowed?

[Mats Wichmann]

On 9/26/21 10:38, 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE at potatochowder.com wrote:
> On 2021-09-26 at 11:21:08 -0500,

> No.  I use mbsync (formerly isync) to synchronize my gmail account with
> a local maildir folder, and while mbsync does send the app password
> (over TLS) to google every few minutes, it doesn't need the second
> factor.  Or at least it hasn't so far (it's been a couple of years).  I
> do get periodic nags from google because I'm using a "less secure"
> method than their web page to access my mail, but I ignore them.

Just be aware, because It's Google, this will change again at some point 
and you'll lose access.  I had a working setup that started triggering 
the less-secure warnings, but was able to ignore it after setting the 
account to allow such "insecure" access (several times, because it kept 
"forgetting" that setting, probably quite intentionally). And then after 
a while, there was no way around it, and now if my infrequently used 
setup gets triggered to sync with gmail I get "critical security alert" 
messages and nothing goes through. And it's unchangeable. I'm going to 
have to go clean it out, just been too lazy to do so.