search

pulb / mailnag

An extensible mail notification daemon
GNU General Public License v2.0
254 stars 32 forks source link

Someone just tried to sign in to your Google Account from an app that doesn't meet modern security standards #117

Open hotice opened 8 years ago

hotice commented 8 years ago

When I try to use Mailnag under Unity (so adding the account under the Mailnag Accounts tab, not via Online Accounts), I receive the following email from Gmail: "Someone just tried to sign in to your Google Account from an app that doesn't meet modern security standards. We strongly recommend that you use a secure app, like Gmail, to access your account. All apps made by Google meet these security standards. Using a less secure app, on the other hand, could leave your account vulnerable"

And of course, because of this, Mailnag doesn't work.

pulb commented 8 years ago

Hi! Please have a look here. Does the suggestion at the bottom help?

hotice commented 8 years ago

Thanks, I didn't see that bug report! I figured 2 other ways before this while writing the Mailnag 1.2 article on WebUpd8 and I got it working. But an OAuth2 system would solve it for good :)

pulb commented 8 years ago

I'll puth OAuth2 on my TODO list.

Many thanks for another very detailed article! I'm certain it will help Mailnag to become more popular :grinning:

KeNaCo commented 8 years ago

same problem, two factor authentication shut down google accounsts :( so +1 for OAuth2

pulb commented 8 years ago

@Ken Mijime: In the meantime you can use the workaround althaser suggested at the end of this issue: https://github.com/pulb/mailnag/issues/112