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Less secure apps and your Google Account

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Re: Less secure apps and your Google Account

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Does this mean no more app tokens, e.g. to retrieve IMAP mail?

No, you can still use IMAP with Thunderbird for example but you login to google account and Thunderbird get a token similar to how all OAuth works, what is blocked is using email/passowrd directly with your IMAP client.
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