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I'm not fully understanding your comment. What do you think is happening or has happened to IMAP at Gmail?

Don't know what the parent poster thinks, but what is happening is this:

https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/09/winding-down...

Which means that basically only apps that are approved by Google for OAuth can use IMAP in the near future.

Interesting, thanks for the info. I must have missed this. It doesn't seem completely unfair to not pass your main Google password, and I imagine you still might be able to use generated application passwords if you really need the functionality (maybe).

The thing that is confusing here is you used to have to turn on less secure apps to use app passwords, and the article says that's getting removed for personal accounts. So while they don't say that they're removing IMAP via app passwords for personal accounts, there's a concern they might be effectively removing them it

Interesting. I occasionally use this feature so will keep an eye on it. Thanks for the clarification.

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