>>> "RS" == Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]

> It looks like we are making progress on the case of using gmail only
> to receive incoming mail (by forwarding it).  Assuming you can get an email
> account in a place with better policies than Google's.

To be completely clear here. 

    1. That information was a bit unofficial.

    2. Most likely the legal department would warn the user, that in the
       case of missing/disappearing messages it is entirely the user's
       fault, since he/she forwarded the messages. That enough will
       scare most of the users.

> Do schools and employers ever require that you _send_ them mail
> from the Google account you're ordered to use?

I can only speak for my university and the answer is «Yes» it does do,
and that is the core of the problem.

I thought I could modify my «From field» and use either some external SMTP
servers or a SMTP server ones installed on my own machine), however
messages by users more knowledgeable than me convinced me that such
messages will be either blocked or marked as SPAM.

So for the moment I only see two alternatives.

    1. Use google app-password (for this approach one can still use gnus
       (and I presume rmail, vm, etc) vanilla).

    2. Switch to oauth2 (with all the hassle involved).