Our company had the same shift, but it's not so much forbidden as just unsupported as they disabled simple password auth.
If you waddle through setting up a project on the google developers console, setup your own oauth auth flow, find/scaffold something with mutt oauth script to fetch your mails locally, then you can likely get it to work too...
(And then sending mails is another sidequest, and if sending mail breaks for some reason that's one in two odds you don't notice for a couple of days.. but it's fine spending work time on this right?)
How they react after you're done is another problem though... I told the IT lead and his reaction was just a shrug, but some could be more vindictive.
If you waddle through setting up a project on the google developers console, setup your own oauth auth flow, find/scaffold something with mutt oauth script to fetch your mails locally, then you can likely get it to work too... (And then sending mails is another sidequest, and if sending mail breaks for some reason that's one in two odds you don't notice for a couple of days.. but it's fine spending work time on this right?)
How they react after you're done is another problem though... I told the IT lead and his reaction was just a shrug, but some could be more vindictive.