>>> "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. ]]]

   >> > Yes, Google have said they will discontinue user name/password
   >> > authentication over IMAP.

   >> Oops, when? This is very serious. 

   > I have asked for someone to volunteer to get in touch with the Kmail
   > developers to ask for their advice about how to deal with this.  As
   > far as I know, nobody has done it.  Would you be willing to write to
   > them?

Yes, but also two comments:

    1. Do you have a link with an announcement of the gmail developers?

    2. I presume such an advice would be useful for rmail, for which you
       are still the maintainer? (VM wanderlust and others which however
       not part of  Emacs)