Re: Gnus + Gmail + IMAP

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Ian Zimmerman writes:

> On 2015-06-29 21:25 +0200, Alexander Shukaev wrote: 
>
> > Just started to move away from using Gmail through the web 
> > interface to Emacs Gnus.  I follow Emacs Wiki to achieve this. 
>
> I don't know if this is your problem, but Gmail won't allow you 
> to use an IMAP client without jumping through extra hoops.  See 
> for example: 
>
> http://www.ghacks.net/2014/07/21/gmail-starts-block-less-secure-apps-enable-access/ 
>
> If you really want to degoogle, I recommend setting up your own 
> mailserver :-P

I use gmail in gnus without a problem. The only thing that I had 
to do is to set up an application-specific password 
(https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords) but 
that is because I use 2-step verification.

--
Jorge.