Howdy,
Early this morning Seamonkey could no longer fetch emails. It wouldn't
accept the username and password. I did some searching and it seems
that Google is disabling plain text username and password. Honestly,
sounds like a good idea really. During my searches, most recommended
OAuth2 so I switched to it. I'd never heard of it before but dove in
head first. Turns out, easy enough. When I hit Get Msgs after changing
the settings, it asked for the password and it started downloading
emails. My first thought, yeppie!!
After a while, I noticed it wasn't downloading new emails
automatically. I have it set to check for new messages every 10 minutes
or so. I had to hit the Get Msgs button each time. I'd prefer it to do
it automatically. I tried restarting Seamonkey and even changing the
settings for doing it automatically, in case a config file needed
updating after the switch, still doesn't do it automatically. I'm
attaching a screenshot of the settings.
Does using OAuth2 disable automatically fetching messages or am I
missing some other setting? It worked fine until I switched to OAuth2
so I don't know what else it could be. Is there something better than
OAuth2 that gmail supports? I just picked the first option I found.
Thoughts??
Dale
:-) :-)
Early this morning Seamonkey could no longer fetch emails. It wouldn't
accept the username and password. I did some searching and it seems
that Google is disabling plain text username and password. Honestly,
sounds like a good idea really. During my searches, most recommended
OAuth2 so I switched to it. I'd never heard of it before but dove in
head first. Turns out, easy enough. When I hit Get Msgs after changing
the settings, it asked for the password and it started downloading
emails. My first thought, yeppie!!
After a while, I noticed it wasn't downloading new emails
automatically. I have it set to check for new messages every 10 minutes
or so. I had to hit the Get Msgs button each time. I'd prefer it to do
it automatically. I tried restarting Seamonkey and even changing the
settings for doing it automatically, in case a config file needed
updating after the switch, still doesn't do it automatically. I'm
attaching a screenshot of the settings.
Does using OAuth2 disable automatically fetching messages or am I
missing some other setting? It worked fine until I switched to OAuth2
so I don't know what else it could be. Is there something better than
OAuth2 that gmail supports? I just picked the first option I found.
Thoughts??
Dale
:-) :-)