Claws Mail (was: What the hell starts pulseaudio?!)

[Mario Lobo]

On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 5:49 PM Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf at riseup.net>
wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Jul 2021 15:49:55 -0300, Mario Lobo wrote:
> >This is all really confusing to me.
>
> In the days before two-factor authentication your mail client needed an
> user ID, usually the email address of your account and a password to
> connect with IMAP, POP, SMPT servers.
>
> If two mail clients accessed the same account, they both used the same
> password.
>
> Nowadays your mail client still needs an user ID, usually the email
> address of your account and a password to connect with IMAP, POP, SMPT
> servers, IOW nothing changed, even the same configureation GUI of e.g.
> Evolution or Claws is used.
>
> New is, that the password now is generated by Yahoo and you need a
> password for each mail client, they do not use the same password to
> access the same account.
>
>
First, let me thank you for the explanation, Ralf,but I still don't get
what I have to do to get claws to work on gmail.

What I see is that although the password is saved, it still asks me for the
password, and even though I put in the correct one, it fails the login
attempt.

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Mario Lobo
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