[Alpine-info] Alpine and Gmail

[Andrew C Aitchison via Alpine-info]

On Mon, 1 Dec 2025, Riku Virtanen via Alpine-info wrote:


> 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?


You can get gmail to forward that email to either one of your
other gmail accounts, or to any other email account you have.


> 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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Andrew C. Aitchison                      Kendal, UK
                    andrew at aitchison.me.uk