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I'm interested in the Gmail integration. Tried it with mutt and decided I didn't want to spend an afternoon figuring it out.

'Sides, I hear that Gmail is phasing out IMAP. :-?

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> 'Sides, I hear that Gmail is phasing out IMAP. :-?

I'm so glad I "phased out" Gmail out of my life years ago...

what have you moved on to?

Not the GP, but I use Fastmail and love it. I hear Protonmail is good too.

For GMail sync someone else has already mentioned Lieer which is an excellent tool for robust two-way syncing of emails and tags/labels between Notmuch (and anything that uses it) and GMail. It uses the GMail API so it doesn't rely on IMAP.

https://github.com/gauteh/lieer

> 'Sides, I hear that Gmail is phasing out IMAP. :-?

No, just unsecure access:

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41324757

Can you point out which part of this is relevant to Gmail integration?

> 'Sides, I hear that Gmail is phasing out IMAP.

Nope. AFAIK, Microsoft is phasing out POP, and maybe GMail, but not IMAP.

If you're using two factor authentication, you need to use an App Password.

> 'Sides, I hear that Gmail is phasing out IMAP. :-?

Uh? Really?

Pretty sure that's fake news. To my knowledge, they've only deprecated authentication with your regular password via IMAP, you'll now have to at least create an app password.

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