Ask HN: Did Google turn off IMAP access for good over the weekend?

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6 years ago

Google was going to turn off access for LSA apps soon, and this includes IMAP for Gmail. However, with the pandemic they delayed this indefinitely.

Since May 1st, using IMAP to access a G Suite account stopped working, though, with a message:

> IMAP command 'AUTHENTICATE PLAIN <authdata>' returned an error: NO [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Invalid credentials (Failure)

I know the credentials are good because they work in the browser. Maybe an automated process somewhere kicked in?

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