Google will disable all but OAuth for IMAP, SMTP and POP starting Sept. 30

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  • free-email-forwarding

    The best free email forwarding for custom domains. Visit our website to get started (SMTP server)

  • Thanks for your feedback. We've updated our home page at https://forwardemail.net and added a dedicated link/section in our FAQ for "What is Forward Email" at https://forwardemail.net/faq#what-is-forward-email.

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  • gmail-oauth2-tools

    Tools and sample code for authenticating to Gmail with OAuth2

  • Shouldn't be _too_ hard to convert your scripts.

    I ran into the same problem and one workspace disallows App passwords. You can simply get the OAuth token with a little python script and then use it as the password: https://github.com/google/gmail-oauth2-tools/blob/master/pyt...

    (see for example https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter/issues/186)

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  • imapfilter

    IMAP mail filtering utility

  • Shouldn't be _too_ hard to convert your scripts.

    I ran into the same problem and one workspace disallows App passwords. You can simply get the OAuth token with a little python script and then use it as the password: https://github.com/google/gmail-oauth2-tools/blob/master/pyt...

    (see for example https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter/issues/186)

  • cli

    🧰 A zero trust swiss army knife for working with X509, OAuth, JWT, OATH OTP, etc. (by smallstep)

  • https://github.com/smallstep/cli implements some OAuth flows from the CLI, it may be helpful for you.

  • autoconfig

    The ISPDB, Thunderbird's database of mail configuration files.

  • forwardemail.net

    Privacy-focused encrypted email for everyone.

  • Thanks for your feedback. We've updated our home page at https://forwardemail.net and added a dedicated link/section in our FAQ for "What is Forward Email" at https://forwardemail.net/faq#what-is-forward-email.

    Commit: https://github.com/forwardemail/forwardemail.net/commit/5942...

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