Hey all,

I’m going to be moving on to my next project and have been thinking about doing an email client. I like Thunderbird, but the search is terrible, and I also want to tackle something that needs pretty high performance for processing emails etc.

Any suggestions or considerations I should think about?

I’ll focus on just getting SMTP going in a CLI then I’ll introduce some sort of frontend using Qt.

  • @[email protected]
    1•3 months ago

    First sentence on the first hit when searching for “Gmail smtp imap”:

    For non-Gmail clients, Gmail supports the standard IMAP, POP, and SMTP protocols.

    https://developers.google.com/gmail/imap/imap-smtp

    What you’re referring to is the fact that GMail has apparently disabled authentication using username + password for SMTP/IMAP. I would assume that application passwords still work fine as a workaround, even if they don’t mention it specifically.

    • @onlinepersonaEnglish
      1•3 months ago

      What you’re referring to is the fact that GMail has apparently disabled authentication using username + password for SMTP/IMAP. I would assume that application passwords still work fine as a workaround, even if they don’t mention it specifically.

      Oh, yes that might be it! There is a hope again to using a third-party email client! The gmail web client is decidedly not my favorite.

      Thanks!

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