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    From Jeff Earle@1:229/700 to All on Mon Jan 27 11:57:08 2025
    Hello All,
    Has anyone successfully setup Mystic's POP3 & SMTP servers to work with gmail or Samsung mail to send & receive mail?
    I keep getting authorization fail.
    Any help would be appreciated.
    Thanks

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  • From ogg@1:106/1 to Jeff Earle on Mon Jan 27 14:28:48 2025
    Has anyone successfully setup Mystic's POP3 & SMTP servers to work with gmail or Samsung mail to send & receive mail?
    I keep getting authorization fail.
    Any help would be appreciated.

    Try using 3rd party passwords on gmail instead your own.

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  • From Todd Yatzook@1:142/799 to Jeff Earle on Tue Jan 28 00:20:33 2025
    On 27 Jan 2025, Jeff Earle said the following...

    Hello All,
    Has anyone successfully setup Mystic's POP3 & SMTP servers to work with gmail or Samsung mail to send & receive mail?
    I keep getting authorization fail.
    Any help would be appreciated.
    Thanks

    The latest prealpha is borked when it comes to that. It will only let you enter the passwords in ALL CAPS, so you'd have to change your email account password to match in all caps to work, which isn't as secure and kind of a pain.

    I know it works (worked) with Gmail a couple years ago, not sure if it does now. I think I remember reading that Gmail updated the security needed to get it to work, and Mystic is behind in that. Same thing with my IONOS email account.

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  • From Jeff Earle@1:229/700 to ogg on Tue Jan 28 08:02:42 2025
    On 27 Jan 2025, ogg said the following...

    Has anyone successfully setup Mystic's POP3 & SMTP servers to work wi gmail or Samsung mail to send & receive mail?
    I keep getting authorization fail.
    Any help would be appreciated.

    Try using 3rd party passwords on gmail instead your own.


    Thanks, but Im not sure what you mean by 3rd party passwords. Please clarify.

    Thank you

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  • From Jeff Earle@1:229/700 to Todd Yatzook on Tue Jan 28 08:03:51 2025
    On 28 Jan 2025, Todd Yatzook said the following...

    On 27 Jan 2025, Jeff Earle said the following...

    Hello All,
    Has anyone successfully setup Mystic's POP3 & SMTP servers to work wi gmail or Samsung mail to send & receive mail?
    I keep getting authorization fail.
    Any help would be appreciated.
    Thanks

    The latest prealpha is borked when it comes to that. It will only let
    you enter the passwords in ALL CAPS, so you'd have to change your email account password to match in all caps to work, which isn't as secure and kind of a pain.

    I know it works (worked) with Gmail a couple years ago, not sure if it does now. I think I remember reading that Gmail updated the security needed to get it to work, and Mystic is behind in that. Same thing with
    my IONOS email account.


    I'll try that for sure. Thank you, it may be the issue.

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  • From ogg@1:106/1 to Jeff Earle on Tue Jan 28 10:34:52 2025
    Try using 3rd party passwords on gmail instead your own.


    Thanks, but Im not sure what you mean by 3rd party passwords. Please clarify.
    Try this link:

    https://www.zdnet.com/article/gmail-app-passwords-what-they-are-how-to-create- one-and-why-to-use-them/

    or

    https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/13533235?hl=en

    or

    https://www.lifewire.com/get-a-password-to-access-gmail-by-pop-imap-2-1171882

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  • From g00r00@1:129/215 to Todd Yatzook on Tue Feb 25 21:44:24 2025
    The latest prealpha is borked when it comes to that. It will only let
    you enter the passwords in ALL CAPS, so you'd have to change your email account password to match in all caps to work, which isn't as secure and kind of a pain.

    I did fix this I just need to get it compiled and uploaded.

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  • From Todd Yatzook@1:142/799 to g00r00 on Wed Feb 26 10:50:04 2025
    On 25 Feb 2025, g00r00 said the following...

    The latest prealpha is borked when it comes to that. It will only let you enter the passwords in ALL CAPS, so you'd have to change your ema account password to match in all caps to work, which isn't as secure kind of a pain.

    I did fix this I just need to get it compiled and uploaded.

    I figured you would, and I'm a patient guy, no worries man.

    How's everything been lately? I think it's been about 3-4 years or maybe longer since I've really bugged you about anything, lawl. You see DoorParty is running on Mystic now? Thank you for that, btw. Love it so much.

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