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Re:What Thunderbird Learned at FOSDEM by lucideer on Friday February 09, 2018 @11:21AM (#16341423)
If you look at how, e.g. Fastmail solves this[0] (and other services do the same or similar), it's a nice example of something that's both secure and supports any client without requiring the client to do anything specific to their service.

[0] https://www.fastmail.com/help/clients/apppassword.html?u=069...

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Re:What Thunderbird Learned at FOSDEM by lucideer on Friday February 09, 2018 @12:23PM (#16342024)
Replying to cvwright:

That feature is presented by Google as an alternative "for less secure apps". If you're using a client that Google considers to be "less secure", you also have to explicitly enable support for "less secure apps" in settings, in addition to that. This setting may not even be available to you if you're not on @gmail.com and your domain administrator has disabled it (which Google recommends they do).

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Re:What Thunderbird Learned at FOSDEM by cvwright on Friday February 09, 2018 @12:17PM (#16341961)
From the Github issue linked above, apparently Google supports something similar: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833
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