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From: Jason Rumney <jasonrumney@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Email on Emacs and Gmail 2 step verification
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:31:22 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5912640d-f598-4333-99b1-3092c7f2ebf2@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45e2ac7a-114b-4483-9b5e-34c1a112fa35@googlegroups.com>

On Saturday, 19 January 2013 09:44:37 UTC+8, Brian Maguire  wrote:
> I have been trying to set up Gnu Emacs 23 for reading and writing email.  I've tried both Wanderlust and Gnus and my first problem is getting either to work with 2-step verification.  I can get into imap if I turn 2 step off, but I really don't want to do that.
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> So, can emacs be made to work as a mail reader with 2-step verification and if so how?
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> Thanks for any help.

There is no 2-step authentication in IMAP.  I think you need to generate an "application specific password" to continue using IMAP after you enable 2-step authentication in Gmail.


  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-19  8:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-19  1:44 Email on Emacs and Gmail 2 step verification Brian Maguire
2013-01-19  8:31 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2013-01-19 10:53 ` James Freer

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