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gnus, gmail and 2 factor authentication not working
From: |
Jonathan Wheelhouse |
Subject: |
gnus, gmail and 2 factor authentication not working |
Date: |
Thu, 05 Jul 2012 13:34:38 +1000 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Hi
I have successfully been accessing my gmail account via IMAP from GNUS.
Recently, however I enabled 2 factor authentication on my gmail account
after reading
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/04/make-your-email-hacker-proof.html
.
With 2 factor authentication you can get gmail to generate an
application specific password. So I did that for GNUS. I entered this
password into ~/.imap-authinfo file. Here are the relevant bits of the
.gnus and .imap-authinfo files.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
;; .gnus file relevant bit
;; ... gmail via imap
(add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnimap "gmail"
(nnimap-address
"imap.gmail.com")
(nnimap-server-port 993)
(nnimap-authinfo-file
"~/.imap-authinfo")
(nnimap-stream ssl)))
(setq imap-ssl-program "openssl s_client -quiet -ssl3 -connect %s:%p")
(setq imap-log t)
;; .imap-authinfo file. <password> is replaced by the gmail generated password
machine imap.gmail.com login jonathan.wheelhouse@gmail.com password <password>
port 993
------------------------------------------------------------------------
However, I cannot now access gmail via GNUS.
The message I get is this:
Warning: Opening nnimap server on gmail...failed: NO (ALERT)
Application-specific password required:
http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer=185833
(Failure);
Any ideas on how to fix this?
--
Jonathan
- gnus, gmail and 2 factor authentication not working,
Jonathan Wheelhouse <=