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Mutt Login Failed
I was using mutt for few months until it started giving an error: "Login failed".
When I do mutt -d 5
[2022-06-08 14:27:17] SASL local ip: 2401:4900:170d:264a:c146:ad26:5e83:fe0e;45008, ...
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alpine email client 2.22 gmail error BAD Client aborted AUTHENTICATE command
I'm on ubuntu 20.04 and use alpine as my email client for gmail. About a week ago I had to change the authentication method from user-password to xoauth2 due to gmail disabling secure apps (meaning I ...
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gmail sendgmail configuration for git send-email
From May 30, 2022:
Google no longer supports the use of third-party apps or devices which ask you to sign in to your Google Account using only your username and password.
This is a problem for ...
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Thunderbird cannot sync with Gmail after logging in, given that the TFA is on
I have installed Thunderbird version 78.13 on my MX-Linux 21 KDE. Given that my Gmail account uses Two-factor Authentication, my email client cannot establish a connection to the IMAP server. It ...
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Is it possible to use fetchmail or getmail to download an save a copy of all e-mail messages from GMAIL?
I have a GMAIL account almost full, so i would like to download a copy of my e-mails (backup ) to my local linux server with getmail ou fecthmail (and keep them locally regardless of being deleted ...
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systemd (OnFailure) using ssmtp with gmail can't send mail
Some important service:
[Unit]
...
OnFailure=status-email@%n.service
status-email@.service:
[Unit]
Description=status email for %i to user
[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/systemd-...
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Help unsubscribing from Debian mailing lists [closed]
Apologies if this is not the right place to ask.
My email address is "myname@gmail.com", but I subscribed (to several Debian mailing lists) with the email "myname+web@gmail.com" (I'...
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gmail + mutt + isync: how to archive and delete mail
I want to switch from Thunderbird to (Neo)mutt, because I would like to read my mail in a terminal (offline). I have a gmail account and just can't figure out how to setup Mutt properly.
I have setup ...
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Setting up a local machine to only send e-mails
I have installed a Raspberry device on my home network from which I want to receive periodic e-mails for a certain manner.
I wish to use the mailutils in order to send them via my scripts but I didn't ...
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Neomutt: add gmail account using password manager (KeepassXC)
I installed neomutt recently I am not able to add my gmail account to it.
How can I authenticate in neomutt as gmail client without writing password in
config files as plain text ? I am using ...
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OAUTHBEARER authentication fails in mutt
I've used OAUTHBEARER authentication to use mutt with GMail for a while, but I've run into a an issue that I can't figure out. When I launch mutt I get OAUTHBEARER authentication failed. Here is ....
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What's Causing High CPU Use On GMail?
I've seen this on Opera, Vivaldi and Firefox. When a open a gmail page the cpu goes up and keeps there around 2min/3min. If I open my two email pages then it goes crazy... some time ago I left as ...
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Postfix using OAuth2 authentication for relay host
I tried to set up postfix with Google as its relay host but failed
miserably.
Google switched to OAuth2 authentication and deprecated other authentication
methods. This is why I tried to use the new ...
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Neomutt Multi account
I have been using mutt for a while and got it to work pretty well with 2 gmail accounts.
I have 2 macros set to switch from one to the other.
wanting to move to neomutt, the exact configuration is ...
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Mutt - Oauth2.py - python3 support
I was wondering if there was a version of oauth2.py here working in python3.
On my Manjaro, I got it to work by installing python2.But on a wsl install it doesn't seem to work.
Thanks.
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Can msmtp rewrite addresses?
I am trying to get all my system emails to be forwarded to my gmail address, using msmtp 1.8.3 and /etc/aliases on debian. It works, but I get errors from gmail.
When I email root (via echo "hello ...
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Evolution fails to connect to my Google calendar
I've configured 2-Step Verification with my Google accont (under https://myaccount.google.com/security). Emails with OAuth 2 seem to come through fine but I keep getting
"Failed to connect calendar ...
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How to get subject of gmail letter with curl?
I use curl in my Lua program to get new mail list.
I am trying to send request like this
local head_command = "curl --connect-timeout 30 -fsm 30"
local server = "imap.gmail.com"
local mail ...
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Mutt error SMTP session failed: read error
set ssl_starttls=yes
set ssl_force_tls=yes
set imap_user = 'name@gmail.com'
set imap_pass = 'password'
set from='name@gmail.com'
set realname='name@gmail.com'
set folder = imaps://imap.gmail.com/
...
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Get number of emails in specific directory on mail server
I am trying to find a way to connect to a mail server and find out how many emails there are in a specific directory. In this specific case, it is the Spam directory in my Gmail account. I am not ...
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How to provide OAuth2 "Client ID" and "Client Secret" to an open-source bash script?
I was writing a bash script for Gmail that would authorize itself using OAuth2, and make API calls using the received tokens. It worked.
But now I'm stuck on thinking how to securely store the Client ...
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CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED when connecting to GMail with offlineimap
Under an Arch Linux, I want to use offlineimap to synchronize to GMail like this.
[general]
accounts = Gmail
maxsyncaccounts = 3
[Account Gmail]
localrepository = LocalGmail
remoterepository = ...
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How to get traditional email clients to send email which appears normal in Gmail?
A considerate friend informed me recently that emails I send (with Neomutt; could be Mutt or Gnus or Pine) look funny on his device:
Apparently Google doesn't invest much effort in properly ...
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Configure Postfix to Send Mail Using Gmail in Ubuntu 16.04
I have configured Postfix to Send Mail Using Gmail.
I have modified the file /etc/postfix/main.cf
adding
myhostname = fqdn.peris.app
mydestination = $myhostname, peris.app, localhost, localhost....
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How to configure sendmail so emails can be accepted by Gmail?
The server has two network interfaces: eth0 with direct IP = xxx.xx.xx.18 connected to provider, and eth1 with another direct IP = xxx.xx.xx.25
DNS for the zone is configured correctly and it ...
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How to import Gmail contacts to Alpine?
I tried the solutions provided here, but they didn't worked.
In particular, google.py gives me this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "google.py", line 9, in <module>
for ...
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Upload email from nnml to Gmail (or IMAP) [closed]
I have just found some tens of thousands of old emails in a Linux subdirectory which I would like to upload to GMail. GMail has an IMAP interface, so if your answer is IMAP-specific, that's ...
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ssmtp with gmail
So, this is weird. Two computers, one with CentOS and one with Manjaro. Both have ssmtp, both with the same setup. Manjaro ssmtp will connect and send emails, CentOS will not:
/etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf:
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Google treats mail from my mail server as spam [closed]
Does anyone know what's wrong with my server? Messages are sent to spam.
Delivered-To: donia.chromik@gmail.com
Received: by 10.103.46.145 with SMTP id u139csp1708503vsu;
Sat, 27 Jan 2018 08:...
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ssmtp myaddress@gmail.com < file.log doesn't work. Body is blank
I'm running a simple rsync script where I log stdout and stderr to two different files, rsync_stdout.log and rsync_stderr.log.
When I'm trying to email the content of rsync_stderr.log using:
echo $(...
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Do I need Dovecot on server if Gmail is hosting our email?
I noticed a recurring error in the mail.log as well as when I run service dovecot status on a server I 'inherited' for my job (used for our production website). We have our MX records pointed to/email ...
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Why failing to setup Gmail of 2-step verification phone based in Thunderbird?
It work previously but not anymore in Fig. 1.
I tried 5 times.
It went through the normal Google 2-step verification process, but when returning to the main window, it gives the result in Fig. 1.
I ...
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How do I open Gmail in Firefox on Scientific Linux? [closed]
I can access every website in my browser except Gmail.
When I try to open it in the browser it just keeps searching and never gets anywhere.
I've tried deleting my history, cookies and cache and ...
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How to send mail via console on OpenBSD using a Gmail account?
There is a certificate error:
# echo "hello" | msmtp -a default DESTINATION@gmail.com
msmtp: TLS certificate verification failed: unable to get local issuer certificate
msmtp: could not send mail (...
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Simplest way to send mail with image attachment from command line using gmail?
Building on the previous post where the requirement was to have cron jobs send status messages via a single command line, as posted here:
Simplest way to send one-line mail out via command line using ...
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Using Mailx with Gmail
I've installed mailx, and when I try to send an email, like:
echo "Test" | mailx -r "foo@gmail.com" -s "Test" "bar@gmail.com"
It executes. But I don't receive the email. How do I set mailx up to ...
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Simplest way to send one-line mail out via command line using gmail?
Using Raspbian and Ubunntu 16.04 LTS so need a generic Linux solution.
Requirement is simple:
I need a way to send one-line email messages from the command line.
I have set up a gmail account just ...
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Problem sending email using ssmtp
I am attempting to setup so I can mail from Raspbian.
When I attempt to send I get an error ssmtp: Cannot open smtp.gmail.com:587 (I also tried port:465)
I have set "Access for less secure apps" on ...
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Import gmail certificate in Pidgin
There is a bug with Pidgin, where the certificate for gmail.com cannot be validated.
The problem is discussed here and there is also a solution:
openssl s_client -showcerts -servername gmail.com -...
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How to send mail to gmail account using ssmtp
I have the following ssmtp.conf file:
root=test@gmail.com
mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587
hostname=ed424cef9b52
UseTLS=Yes
UseStartTTLS=Yes
AuthMethod=LOGIN
AuthUser=test
AuthPass=test
FromLineOverride=...