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[Daniel P. Wright]

Bardur,

Ah, ok, that makes sense.  Thanks for the clarification.

-Dani.

2016-04-20 15:56 GMT+09:00 Bardur Arantsson <spam at scientician.net>:

> On 04/20/2016 08:32 AM, Daniel P. Wright wrote:
> > Hello David,
> >
> >> The only thing I noticed with Gmail is that in order to work it requires
> > the sender's account to toggle this setting:
> >> Allow less secure apps: OFF
> >
> > That does sound unusual!  Is my understanding you correctly that
> HaskellNet
> > doesn't work UNLESS you disallow less secure apps?  Or is it the other
> > (more intuitive) way round? (i.e. HaskellNet is being considered a "less
> > secure" app and thus being disallowed).
>
> It's not particularly sinister...
>
> It's is simply that IMAP/SMTP do not have authentication options that
> are "secure enough" for Google[1]. Or perhaps rather that they at least
> must allow less secure authentication options per their respective
> standards/RFCs.
>
> Regards,
>
> [1] Basically they don't enforce two-factor auth.
>
>
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