[Alpine-info] Alpine and Gmail

[Riku Virtanen via Alpine-info]

Hi,

I am using Oauth. I did not earlier turn on App password, and Google has 
closed the opportunity to create new App passwords during this year.
  https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255?hl=en

My problem remains and I cannot log into one Google account with my Linux 
Alpine. Via Firefox, I can open the account, but Alpine does not connect 
to it. Is there anything what can I do?

Best,
Riku


On Sun, 28 Sep 2025, Lucio Chiappetti via Alpine-info wrote:


> On Sun, 28 Sep 2025, Riku Virtanen via Alpine-info wrote:

>

>> My Alpine is connected to three Gmail accounts.

>> 

>> Two of three accounts work normally. One works in Windows machine but in my 

>> Fedora Linux machine, it asks authentization.

>

> Are you using OAuth2 or "app password" ?

>

> I personally avoid Gmail as the plague. I get its normal mail via forwarding 

> to another provider and fetchmail, and I use "app password".

>

> App password (different from your interactive password) requires you set up 

> 2FA (two factor authentication) and get a special app password from their 

> site, and copy it promptly because it is saved nowhere for further access.

>

> Then you can configure alpine to access gmail site/folders with your 

> username, and the first time you access it, allow alpine to store it in its 

> master-password-protected password list.  I imagine you have to use different 

> app password for each of your gmail accounts (I have only one on gmail but 

> two others elsewhere).  Be sure you supply the right one for each account. 

> Alpine can store multiple account passwords, so in each future access you 

> type just the master password once.

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