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What username, server and port are specified for IMAP with Gmail using getmail?

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Looking at github and trying to use their example config file: nicholas@mordor:~$ nicholas@mordor:~$ cat .config/getmail/getmail [options] verbose = 1 delete = false message_log = ~/.getmail/log message_log_verbose = true read_all = false [retriever] type = SimpleIMAPSSLRetriever server = imap.gmail.com port = 993 username = saunders.nicholas@gmail.com password = xxx #mailboxes = ("INBOX") [destination] type = Mboxrd path = ~/GotMail/inbox user = saunders nicholas@mordor:~$ nicholas@mordor:~$ getmail getmail version 6.18.4 Copyright (C) 1998-2021 Charles Cazabon and others. Licensed under GNU GPL version 2. SimpleIMAPSSLRetriever:saunders.nicholas@gmail.com@imap.gmail.com:993: Configuration error: no such specified user ("getpwnam(): name not found: 'saunders'") nicholas@mordor:~$ nicholas@mordor:~$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Release: 22.04 Codename: jammy nicholas@mordor:~$ Trying getmail to archive old e-mails from gmail. I've tried a few options with the server, port and username but can't find a combination which works. The Pine e-mail client works fine with 2FA and using the app password, so fairly certain it's server name, username or something like that. Logs are empty. see also: https://www.bytereef.org/howto/oauth2/getmail.html where he specifies: type = SimpleIMAPSSLRetriever server = imap.gmail.com username = your_account@gmail.com
Asked by Nicholas Saunders (565 rep)
Dec 15, 2023, 08:45 PM