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Re: Google IMAP (with k9mail)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Fri Oct 23 12:20:49 2015

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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 12:20:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>

> Incoming settings
> IMAP server: imap.gmail.com
> Port: 993
> Security type: SSL (always)
> 
> Outgoing settings
> SMTP server: smtp.gmail.com
> Port: 465
> Security type: SSL (always)

Hijack: to use k9mail with gmail IMAP, I have to enable "allow less secure 
clients" in the gmail web UI, but neither the Gmail people nor the k9mail
people seem to want to actually document which protocol is disliked or
required.

Anyone have any actual facts on this point?

Cheers,
-- jra
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