• GMAIL Access in Alpine Through WSL?

    From Chime Hart@chime@hubert-humphrey.com to comp.mail.pine on Sat May 18 18:41:26 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.mail.pine

    HI All: My Linux expert posted this question in alpine-info, but I notice more folks read over here-and-he is not in Usnet. Here are his comments-and-thanks in advance
    Hello all,

    I have set up Alpine with Gmail and I'm able to successfully connect to the Gmail account and access/send email. The issue is that this just stops
    working after a couple of days. This is coming from a WSL environment
    (Ubuntu). I have the master password set up and if necessary I can open the links provided in Alpine and work through the steps to re-auquthorize it.
    The weird thing is that each time I'm pulling down the exact same token
    from Gmail. The Google account info says that the access "Does not expire"
    but it still stops working. I have a master password file set up.

    If I were to main user of this account, then this would be an annoyance and nothing more, but this is set up for a blind woman who is still learning to interact with the screen reader. She is not able at this time to go through those steps. So, if there is a way to keep the authentication going
    on Alpine's end, I'd love to hear it.

    Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.
    --
    Marc Lytle

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  • From nospam@nospam@example.net to comp.mail.pine on Sun May 19 12:56:54 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.mail.pine



    On Sat, 18 May 2024, Chime Hart wrote:

    HI All: My Linux expert posted this question in alpine-info, but I notice more folks read over here-and-he is not in Usnet. Here are his comments-and-thanks in advance
    Hello all,

    I have set up Alpine with Gmail and I'm able to successfully connect to the Gmail account and access/send email. The issue is that this just stops working after a couple of days. This is coming from a WSL environment (Ubuntu). I have the master password set up and if necessary I can open the links provided in Alpine and work through the steps to re-auquthorize it.
    The weird thing is that each time I'm pulling down the exact same token
    from Gmail. The Google account info says that the access "Does not expire" but it still stops working. I have a master password file set up.

    If I were to main user of this account, then this would be an annoyance and nothing more, but this is set up for a blind woman who is still learning to interact with the screen reader. She is not able at this time to go through those steps. So, if there is a way to keep the authentication going
    on Alpine's end, I'd love to hear it.

    Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.
    --
    Marc Lytle

    Hm, strange. First of all, did you check the logs? Maybe there are some
    good clues there.
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