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Security message from Google
My wife does not have a computer at the moment and I have added her
E-Mail address to my Outlook folder. Why has this message came up for her ? "Someone just used your password to try to sign in to your account from a non-Google app. Google blocked them, but you should check what happened. Review your account activity to make sure no one else has access." Bill. |
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Security message from Google
Bill Ward wrote:
Why has this message came up for her ? "Someone just used your password to try to sign in to your account from a non-Google app. It's probably *BECAUSE* you've accessed the mailbox with IMAP/POP, google regard those as insecure |
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Security message from Google
On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 11:22:14 +0000, Bill Ward wrote:
My wife does not have a computer at the moment and I have added her E-Mail address to my Outlook folder. Why has this message came up for her ? "Someone just used your password to try to sign in to your account from a non-Google app. Google blocked them, but you should check what happened. Review your account activity to make sure no one else has access." Could it be that you just signed into her account in order to set it up? -- Regards - Rodney Pont The from address exists but is mostly dumped, please send any emails to the address below e-mail rpont (at) gmail (dot) com |
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On 27/11/2018 11:22, Bill Ward wrote:
My wife does not have a computer at the moment Get her a Linux junk. For eMail, Facebook, Twitter and web browsing this is all she needs. Go to any Linux newsgroup and ask them if they are looking for someone to takeaway their clunker. They might even pay you to take it away!!! -- With over 950 million devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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Security message from Google
On 11/27/2018 6:22 AM, Bill Ward wrote:
My wife does not have a computer at the moment and I have added her E-Mail address to my Outlook folder. Why has this message came up for her ? "Someone just used your password to try to sign in to your account from a non-Google app. Google blocked them, but you should check what happened. Review your account activity to make sure no one else has access." Bill. This is a standard response that I get from GMail whenever the account is accessed from a device presumably not included in its links. It even does it when I access my GMail account from my laptop! Google notion of "security" is one of the worst jokes running these days. -- best regards, Neil |
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Security message from Google
On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 11:37:28 +0000, Andy Burns wrote:
Bill Ward wrote: Why has this message came up for her ? "Someone just used your password to try to sign in to your account from a non-Google app. It's probably *BECAUSE* you've accessed the mailbox with IMAP/POP, google regard those as insecure I access my Gmail mail box all the time with IMAP, and I do not get this message. The authentication method is set to OAuth2. It is not IMAP that Google regards as insecure; it is any authentication method other than OAuth2. * FYI: Screen-shot of OAuth2 setting in TB: http://i.imgur.com/dPUg7N3.png -- Kind regards Ralph |
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Security message from Google
On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 11:22:14 +0000, Bill Ward wrote:
My wife does not have a computer at the moment and I have added her E-Mail address to my Outlook folder. Why has this message came up for her ? "Someone just used your password to try to sign in to your account from a non-Google app. Google blocked them, but you should check what happened. Review your account activity to make sure no one else has access." Google recognizes that the access was from a different computer. Google does not know whether the different computer was authorised by your wife or not. Hence the warning. -- Kind regards Ralph |
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On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 12:45:31 -0500, Neil wrote:
This is a standard response that I get from GMail whenever the account is accessed from a device presumably not included in its links. It even does it when I access my GMail account from my laptop! User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.3.1 If your laptop uses Thunderbird to access Gmail over IMAP, change the authentication method to OAuth2. Problem solved. -- Kind regards Ralph |
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Ralph Fox wrote:
It is not IMAP that Google regards as insecure; it is any authentication method other than OAuth2. Thanks, it's a shame google recommend turning on "insecure access" for the mailbox, rather than enabling oauth2 in thunderbird https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255?hl=en |
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Security message from Google
On 11/27/18 5:37 AM, Andy Burns wrote:
Bill Ward wrote: Why has this message came up for her ? "Someone just used your password to try to sign in to your account from a non-Google app. It's probably *BECAUSE* you've accessed the mailbox with IMAP/POP, google regard those as insecure I got several of those messages when I set up my Gmail account (which I have only because of an Android tablet) for IMAP access. -- 28 days until the winter celebration (Tue Dec 25, 2018 12:00:00 AM for 1 day). Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "perhaps as many as ninety percent of the Americans were unchurched in 1790" [Richard Hofstadter, _Anti-Intellectualism in American Life_, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974, p. 82] |
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On 11/27/18 11:56 AM, Ralph Fox wrote:
[snip] It is not IMAP that Google regards as insecure; it is any authentication method other than OAuth2. * FYI: Screen-shot of OAuth2 setting in TB: http://i.imgur.com/dPUg7N3.png What else do you have to do to get that working? -- 28 days until the winter celebration (Tue Dec 25, 2018 12:00:00 AM for 1 day). Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "perhaps as many as ninety percent of the Americans were unchurched in 1790" [Richard Hofstadter, _Anti-Intellectualism in American Life_, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974, p. 82] |
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Security message from Google
On 11/27/2018 1:08 PM, Ralph Fox wrote:
On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 12:45:31 -0500, Neil wrote: This is a standard response that I get from GMail whenever the account is accessed from a device presumably not included in its links. It even does it when I access my GMail account from my laptop! User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.3.1 If your laptop uses Thunderbird to access Gmail over IMAP, change the authentication method to OAuth2. Problem solved. I use Firefox, not Thunderbird to access GMail. -- best regards, Neil |
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Security message from Google
On 11/27/2018 1:04 PM, Ralph Fox wrote:
On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 11:22:14 +0000, Bill Ward wrote: My wife does not have a computer at the moment and I have added her E-Mail address to my Outlook folder. Why has this message came up for her ? "Someone just used your password to try to sign in to your account from a non-Google app. Google blocked them, but you should check what happened. Review your account activity to make sure no one else has access." Google recognizes that the access was from a different computer. Google does not know whether the different computer was authorised by your wife or not. Hence the warning. Just one example of Google's presumptive BS regarding security...there are others. -- best regards, Neil |
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Security message from Google
On 27/11/2018 11:37, Andy Burns wrote:
Bill Ward wrote: Why has this message came up for her ? "Someone just used your password to try to sign in to your account from a non-Google app. It's probably *BECAUSE* you've accessed the mailbox with IMAP/POP, google regard those as insecure Thank you. I had a similar message for myself a few weeks ago and spent considerable time searching for a reason. Bill. |
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On 27/11/2018 15:13, rp wrote:
On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 11:22:14 +0000, Bill Ward wrote: My wife does not have a computer at the moment and I have added her E-Mail address to my Outlook folder. Why has this message came up for her ? "Someone just used your password to try to sign in to your account from a non-Google app. Google blocked them, but you should check what happened. Review your account activity to make sure no one else has access." Could it be that you just signed into her account in order to set it up? I set it up some time ago and this is the first time the message has come up. Bill. |
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