On 2022-06-02, Chris Vine wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jun 2022 20:41:34 -0000 (UTC)
> root <NoEMail@home.org> wrote:
>> I have been trying to authorize fetchmail via popserver.
>>
>> The instructions provided by google for oauth2 authorization simply do not
>> work. My best guess is that they did work once - while password authorization
>> was possible - but now you have to get into your gmail account to authorize
>> your gmail account.
>>
>> It has taken me 7.5 hours to confirm this.
>>
>> For those interested you should read:
>>
>> http://mmogilvi.users.sourceforge.net/software/oauthbearer.html
>
> Go to your google settings, choose 2 factor authentication and then get
> an app password. Enter that app password in your fetchmailrc file.

Just wanted to say thanks for this -- here I was, thinking I'd have to
spend hours researching how to get mutt to cooperate with gmail after
the big recent changes. With app passwords it's very easy.