IMAP Not Working - "Invalid Password"

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ePADD is a software package developed by Stanford University's Special Collections & University Archives that supports archival processes around the appraisal, ingest, processing, discovery, and delivery of email archives.

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IMAP Not Working - "Invalid Password" #449

Closed kantonelli closed 10 months ago

kantonelli commented 11 months ago

For some reason ePADD is not able to import via IMAP. I am using the "Private IMAP Email Account" import box to import an institutional Gmail account. I've tried using both imap.gmail.com and imap.googlemail.com as the IMAP Server address.

The error returned is "Login error # 1: Invalid password for [****@.org]. Please try again." but the password is definitely correct.

Details: Windows 11, Chrome browser, ePADD 10.0.2, JDK 19.0.2

jfarwer commented 11 months ago

Unfortunately in May 2022, Google stopped supporting third-party apps which access an account using only username and password. There are still ways to give ePADD access but the current version of ePADD doesn't fully support IMAP anyway.

You can export the emails in mbox format using Google takeout. It is pretty straightforward, let me know and I help you with that.

kantonelli commented 11 months ago

Thanks for your response. That's a shame it got changed. I'm surprised the latest User Guide doesn't address this, hopefully it will next time it's updated.