[Alpine-info] Alpine and Gmail

[Lucio Chiappetti via Alpine-info]

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.