[plug] email clients for gmail accounts

[Yuchen Pei]

On 12 June 2022 22:36:39 GMT+10:00, gavinwc <gavin.chester at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi everyone, I have been a subscriber to this list for ages (20+ years),
>and have seen activity on here ebb and flow, and now for the first time in
>more than a decade I have a question to ask and hope your collective wisdom
>and experience may help :-)
>
>I've been using thunderbird as my email client for a very long time
>regardless of which distro I have installed. Now with google's rejection of
>"less secure apps" my email via thunderbird has stopped working. I'm not
>prepared to have my google account for gmail associated with my mobile
>number for 2-factor authentication, and I never accept "login with google"
>- I'm telling you that to explain that I try and limit how much user
>profiling I allow alphabet to have on me, so that's why I'm looking for a
>workaround that I can't find online.
>
>Any ideas? How have you folk tackled this problem? I have thought for a
>VERY long time of ditching gmail, and this maybe the tipping point despite
>all the hassle that will entail. What about you?

I'd vote for ditching gmail. It is not hard. Plus all the privacy gains. I switched to fastmail a few years ago and never looked back.

I have yet to encounter an email client that does not work with fastmail ootb. mu4e, gnus, mbsync notmuch, you name it

>
>Cheers. Gavin


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Best,
Yuchen

Sent from a mobile device. Please excuse my brevity, typos and lack of pgp.