From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Gnus + Gmail + IMAP Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:24:23 -0400 Message-ID: <87d20e6we0.fsf@yale.edu> References: <87lhf272in.fsf@yale.edu> <20150629205259.8132.250EF16E@ahiker.mooo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1435613035 29624 80.91.229.3 (29 Jun 2015 21:23:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 21:23:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 29 23:23:44 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9gWj-0008Q6-7z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 23:23:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44117 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9gWi-0001zs-I5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:23:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52907) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9gWZ-0001zh-0e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:23:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9gWT-0002Fe-R9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:23:30 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:57866) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9gWT-0002FF-LN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:23:25 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9gWR-0008Cb-7M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 23:23:23 +0200 Original-Received: from 130.132.236.141 ([130.132.236.141]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 23:23:23 +0200 Original-Received: from jorge.alfaro-murillo by 130.132.236.141 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 23:23:23 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.132.236.141 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:FTOUwKmUuwjq+3Yxk+fq+3kHHQU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:105300 Archived-At: Ian Zimmerman writes: > On 2015-06-29 21:25 +0200, Alexander Shukaev wrote: > >> Just started to move away from using Gmail through the web >> interface to Emacs Gnus. I follow Emacs Wiki to achieve this. > > I don't know if this is your problem, but Gmail won't allow you > to use an IMAP client without jumping through extra hoops. See > for example: > > http://www.ghacks.net/2014/07/21/gmail-starts-block-less-secure-apps-enable-access/ > > If you really want to degoogle, I recommend setting up your own > mailserver :-P I use gmail in gnus without a problem. The only thing that I had to do is to set up an application-specific password (https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords) but that is because I use 2-step verification. -- Jorge.