How To Get Your Gmail Account To Continue Using Oauth2

[Protocol]

Hi, Jeff.

I hope you don't mind me creating this thread, but there is no dedicated thread for users to reply to regarding your announcement here and at the bottom of my post.

So far, everything is working fine for me, although I only manage two Gmail accounts on two different computers.

Also, I haven't had any more prompts to turn on 2-step verification (2SV). I'll see what happens in mid May.


Multi-factor authentication requirement for Google Cloud

Gmail/Oauth -- what to do

[Jeff]

Yeah, I'll admit -- I'm not sure what's going on with the whole thing; Oauth2 for Gmail continues to work. I'm thinking of releasing yet another update that re-instates it without needing to use the F8-backdoor, and just rely on the necessary link in the error log (like it already does) for when it does stop working.

But I feel like there are potentially important dates that could still cause the shutdown:
1) The end of the month, May 1
2) The May 13+ date cited in console/2SV (doesn't seem particularly relevant, but who knows)
3) 30 days after the initial deadline, e.g. May 23
4) The end of the month after a 30-day grace period...

After that...

[Protocol]

I just had to re-authorize my Gmail account.
I hope authorization lasts longer than that in the future.