My heart skipped a beat when I read this — I have various scripts and things that interact with Gmail.
But it's okay. App passwords will still work, it seems. This is just removal of "Less Secure Apps" support, using the account's plain account user/password.
I shudder to think how much automation would die if Google truly killed off everything but OAuth.
I don't like the complexity OAuth. I enjoyed this Perl module documentation[1] that breaks down how the dang thing works, clearly written by someone as exasperated as me (:
But it's okay. App passwords will still work, it seems. This is just removal of "Less Secure Apps" support, using the account's plain account user/password.
I shudder to think how much automation would die if Google truly killed off everything but OAuth.
I don't like the complexity OAuth. I enjoyed this Perl module documentation[1] that breaks down how the dang thing works, clearly written by someone as exasperated as me (:
[1] https://metacpan.org/dist/LWP-Authen-OAuth2/view/lib/LWP/Aut...