Buried in my spam box this afternoon, I found a repetitive email warning from Google (repetitive, in that the same message was sent to the multiple Gmail accounts I’ve set up since 2004).
The warning, in short, is Google is making OAuth 2.0 a mandatory function of accessing one’s Gmail email from outside the (heavy) confines of the Gmail web page, effective 30 May 2022:
This shift, of course, is going to leave a lot of email clients high and dry across several platforms (OS X/macOS, Windows, etc.) and architectures (PowerPC, Intel, and even Apple Silicon).
For me, this hits the use of the same (and preferred) email client I’ve used since ’04, GyazMail, on not only the PowerPC side, but also on the Intel side (as even the latest, 64-bit build of GyazMail, released 2021, compatible with Apple Silicon running Monterey, presently does not support OAuth 2.0). Other third-party email clients may be facing a similar situation.
[Personally, I will need to shift my email management away from Gmail as much as I can. It’s something I should have done long ago anyway, but this is probably the prompt to get me off my duff and actually map out a long-term working plan. (I do have my own domain hosting, but I also know many do not have that affordance.) That plan, in my situation, will mean closing mostly-dormant Gmail accounts I’ve had kicking around for ages; updating web services which rely on those accounts; and for the rest, forwarding Gmail to my own hosted domain’s email accounts.
Google’s compulsory shift will be a heft of a pain for everyone who relies on not only tried-and-true legacy email clients which have never failed them, but possibly also the reliable hardware on which that software depends. It may lock out most paths when originating from a PowerPC setting, which is why I’m posting this here.
tl;dr: This thread is to help bring the many brilliant minds of our community together to begin to aggregate known methods and possibly lesser-known email clients which may continue to run in a PowerPC Mac (or even a PowerPC Linux) setting, and which will also support OAuth 2.0 — provided, of course, there are paths for doing so. These paths will come in handy for anyone who must still rely on Gmail for their email needs (I imagine that will be a lot of us who read this).
Last bit: Allowing for how many solutions are offered by the PowerPC/early Intel community, I may open this into a WikiPost. We’ll see how it goes.
The warning, in short, is Google is making OAuth 2.0 a mandatory function of accessing one’s Gmail email from outside the (heavy) confines of the Gmail web page, effective 30 May 2022:
This shift, of course, is going to leave a lot of email clients high and dry across several platforms (OS X/macOS, Windows, etc.) and architectures (PowerPC, Intel, and even Apple Silicon).
For me, this hits the use of the same (and preferred) email client I’ve used since ’04, GyazMail, on not only the PowerPC side, but also on the Intel side (as even the latest, 64-bit build of GyazMail, released 2021, compatible with Apple Silicon running Monterey, presently does not support OAuth 2.0). Other third-party email clients may be facing a similar situation.
[Personally, I will need to shift my email management away from Gmail as much as I can. It’s something I should have done long ago anyway, but this is probably the prompt to get me off my duff and actually map out a long-term working plan. (I do have my own domain hosting, but I also know many do not have that affordance.) That plan, in my situation, will mean closing mostly-dormant Gmail accounts I’ve had kicking around for ages; updating web services which rely on those accounts; and for the rest, forwarding Gmail to my own hosted domain’s email accounts.
Google’s compulsory shift will be a heft of a pain for everyone who relies on not only tried-and-true legacy email clients which have never failed them, but possibly also the reliable hardware on which that software depends. It may lock out most paths when originating from a PowerPC setting, which is why I’m posting this here.
tl;dr: This thread is to help bring the many brilliant minds of our community together to begin to aggregate known methods and possibly lesser-known email clients which may continue to run in a PowerPC Mac (or even a PowerPC Linux) setting, and which will also support OAuth 2.0 — provided, of course, there are paths for doing so. These paths will come in handy for anyone who must still rely on Gmail for their email needs (I imagine that will be a lot of us who read this).
Last bit: Allowing for how many solutions are offered by the PowerPC/early Intel community, I may open this into a WikiPost. We’ll see how it goes.