I'm trying to setup alpine (formerly PINE) on OSX and GMAIL keeps bouncing my login attempts by saying alpine is not a secure client / to use the web client instead.
I'm not using 2FA (so no app passwords) - so has anyone gotten alpine & gmail to cooperate recently?
On Gmail you need to enable the setting at:
https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps
These apps are no less secure, see:
http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-FAQ.html#I9
(edit): Accounts with two-step verification don't allow the 'less secure' setting. Use app specific passwords instead. See separate answer for alpine configuration under this scheme.
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