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Bug 751243 - Google Less Secure Apps
Google Less Secure Apps
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 746705
Product: geary
Classification: Other
Component: accounts
0.8.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: Geary Maintainers
Geary Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-06-20 00:34 UTC by rstrilec
Modified: 2015-06-20 19:35 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description rstrilec 2015-06-20 00:34:23 UTC 
Yesterday I got continuous password requests for my gmail account.  The only way I found to stop it was to turn on access for "less secure" applications in my google account.

https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps

I am not sure why this changed suddenly but happens with all installations of geary 0.8.3.
Comment 1 Robert Schroll 2015-06-20 19:35:49 UTC 
I believe this is due to Google's efforts to force clients to use oauth2 instead of password authentication.  (See http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/updates-on-authentication-for-gmail.html.)  In the abstract, it's a good idea; in practice, it's a pain.  We discussed this on the mailing list a few months ago: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/geary-list/2015-March/msg00025.html.

We could solve this by supporting oauth2 (bug 746705) and/or GOA (bug 714876) and/or UOA (bug 714877).  I'm going to randomly mark this as a duplicate of the first.  But if there's another way to solve this, please say so and we'll unduplicatify this bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 746705 ***