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For now. They've been threatening to remove App passwords for a long time.
by rwmj 3y ago
For now. They've been threatening to remove App passwords for a long time.
- dotancohen 3y agoThank you, where have they mentioned a possible removal of App passwords?
- rwmj 3y agoWe use gmail at work and they warned our IT department that App passwords were deprecated and would be removed at some point (there was a previous deadline but it has been extended to a non-specific point in the future).
- dotancohen 3y agoI see, thanks.
- leejoramo 3y agoWe had the same communications with Google that encouraged us not to use App Passwords, and hinting at a future removal. Plus the fact that App Passwords expire when the Google Account password changed, means you can’t count on the App Password working. We are a large enough organization with that we have 25 years of use cases beyond “People Reading in their Inbox”. Printers and scanners have been mentioned. But we also have email used to automatically move data between systems. Sometimes this is due to limitations of third party systems, sometimes we have to decide does it make sense to invest the time to rewrite a well tested tool that uses POP. So we have decided to a standards based POP, IMAP, SMTP email service for these automated systems. It takes much less time to configure and test swapping POP server info than migrating to OAUTH The end user email stays with Gmail.