evolution popmail is blocked by gmail OAuth2 security

[Karl Auer]

On Wed, 2020-09-02 at 08:54 +0200, Charles Irons wrote:
> Evolution is unable to receive or send my gmail messages.I get error
> "Failed to authenticate on POP server pop.gmail.com: Data source
> “Chas-gmail” does not support OAuth 2.0 authentication"

Google for "gmail allow less secure apps".

Regards, K.

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