[Alpine-info] Alpine and Gmail

[Lucio Chiappetti via Alpine-info]

Hello,
       I am not sure why you are mailing me directly instead of posting on 
the mailing list. I am not an expert, others on the list may comment 
better.

On Mon, 1 Dec 2025, Riku Virtanen wrote:


> 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.


What do you mean by "this year" ? Forever, or is there an yearly quota ?
I am not aware of any such limit, AFAIK the following page has not been 
cancelled https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en, ...

and my app password (can't remember when I did set it up) is still 
working (*)


> Via Firefox, I can open the account, but Alpine does not connect to 

> it. Is there anything what can I do?


If you want help about using Oauth with Alpine or debugging it, I suppose 
Eduardo Chappa or some other person on the list migh know.

(*) I must add that my configuration is such that all mail is stored 
locally. I do not like to leave my mail on somebody's ese machines.
To do that I use fetchmail.

My Gsuite account is configured to forward "good" mail to a third party, 
and I fetch it from there. This avoids fetchmail using the G* app 
password.

However there are two cases where I use the G* app password from alpine 
(usually once per day). One is to check the false positives in the spam 
folder, the other is to clean the Bin folder (G* implementation of forward 
does not delete the forwarded messages but copies them to Bin. So they 
keep a copy for some 24 hours.

I wish you luck to become as G*-free as one can.