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lib20

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Registered: 2023-11-16

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[SOLVED] Sylpheed no longer working

Hi all,

After the system upgrade to Daedalus it was not possible anymore to use Sylpheed to send or receive emails.
Two accounts are configured from two big email providers.

A message box appears showing an error: Could not establish a connection to the server.

The log windows shows:

[16:06:22] IMAP4> 2 AUTHENTICATE XOAUTH2
[16:06:22] IMAP4< + 
** LibSylph-WARNING: [16:06:22] Could not get OAuth2 token.

** Could not get OAuth2 token.
[16:06:22] IMAP4> 3 LOGOUT
[16:06:22] IMAP4< 2 BAD Too many arguments provided b----------------d
** LibSylph-WARNING: [16:06:22] Could not establish IMAP connection.

** Could not establish IMAP connection.
* creating IMAP4 connection to imap.gmail.com:993 ...
[16:06:28] IMAP4< * OK Gimap ready for requests from 2001:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx f.........................b
[16:06:28] IMAP4> 1 CAPABILITY
[16:06:28] IMAP4< * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UNSELECT IDLE NAMESPACE QUOTA ID XLIST CHILDREN X-GM-EXT-1 XYZZY SASL-IR AUTH=XOAUTH2 AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=PLAIN-CLIENTTOKEN AUTH=OAUTHBEARER
[16:06:28] IMAP4< 1 OK Thats all she wrote! f..........................b
[16:06:28] IMAP4> 2 AUTHENTICATE XOAUTH2
[16:06:28] IMAP4< + 
** LibSylph-WARNING: [16:06:28] Could not get OAuth2 token.

** Could not get OAuth2 token.
[16:06:28] IMAP4> 3 LOGOUT
[16:06:28] IMAP4< 2 BAD Too many arguments provided f...................b
** LibSylph-WARNING: [16:06:28] Could not establish IMAP connection.

** Could not establish IMAP connection.

It was working very fine in Chimaera.
Is it just me or a general issue?

aluma

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Registered: 2022-10-26

Posts: 646  

Re: [SOLVED] Sylpheed no longer working

** LibSylph-WARNING: [16:06:22] Could not get OAuth2 token.

Does it even support OAuth2?
  I haven't found anything simpler than Thunderbird.
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=5326

lib20

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Registered: 2023-11-16

Posts: 5  

Re: [SOLVED] Sylpheed no longer working

I don't know why it is trying to use Oauth2.
It tries so for gmail and also for yandex mail.
Before the upgrade this was working very well, no problems at all.

stopAI

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Registered: 2023-04-04

Posts: 186  

Re: [SOLVED] Sylpheed no longer working

As far as I know, this program does not work with gmail and yandex mail. You should thank gmail's "security" policy for that.

lib20

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Registered: 2023-11-16

Posts: 5  

Re: [SOLVED] Sylpheed no longer working

But used to work before the upgrade.

I haven't yet configured my own email server, so, I'm still using the devil's tools.
Well, the internet cables, routers and backbone servers are all theirs, as well.

chris2be8

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Registered: 2018-08-11

Posts: 307  

Re: [SOLVED] Sylpheed no longer working

What happens if you tell it to use googlemail.com instead of gmail.com ? I have one system using kmail where it insists on using the wrong type of auth for gmail.com but I can get it to work with googlemail.com (it's kmail being "clever" that causes the problem). I can't check details on that system just now though, sorry.

That took quite a lot of puzzling to work out.

lib20

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Registered: 2023-11-16

Posts: 5  

Re: [SOLVED] Sylpheed no longer working

I already solved this.
In menu Configuration | Edit accounts | Edit | Receive
the IMAP4 authentication method was set to Automatic.
There is an option to OAuth2.  Probably the automatic was using OAuth2, according to instructions from
Set up Gmail with a third-party email client
https://support.google.com/a/answer/9003945

Any of the options 'LOGIN' or 'PLAIN'  are good to be able to connect to the gmail account.

Thank you all for your support.

pcalvert

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Registered: 2017-05-15

Posts: 216  

Re: [SOLVED] Sylpheed no longer working

Are you saying that you are now able to retrieve email from your Gmail account without using OAuth2?

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lib20

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Registered: 2023-11-16

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Re: [SOLVED] Sylpheed no longer working

Are you saying that you are now able to retrieve email from your Gmail account without using OAuth2?

Yes, I am, through an email client.
If you read the web page I linked above you find this section:

If you must use Gmail with older versions of Outlook, or other mail clients that don't support OAuth, follow the steps in this section

And follow the instructions.

Hope this helps.

Last edited by lib20 (2023-11-22 22:04:56)