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On Fri, May 2, 2025 at 10:01 AM, Brad Snyder wrote:

Unless someone is using an old version of either of these operating systems, and their included Mail apps, you will not be affected by this change in Google’s policy.

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Correct, hence the reason for my first sentence, which reads: ?This should probably not hit most of our members here, but it's important to know, particularly if you know anyone using very old versions of Outlook (2013 or earlier) or any very old email client who has used it to access Google Mail, Calendar, and Contacts.

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The quoted passage from the announcement for Google Workspace Admins takes it on faith that those in such a position know that this does mean "old versions," and, in this case, I'd say very old versions.

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If you have anything even kinda-sorta recent, and you've set up your Gmail account on it then you were probably walked through OAUTH upon initial setup.

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I posted this mainly because I know that there is a subset of our readership (or their friends) that likes to do what I call "clinging to the corpses of long dead technology."? If you were using any email client that's ancient enough not to support modern authentication methods for Gmail, you won't be doing so anymore.? I'm anticipating a flurry of, "Why can't I access my Gmail?," questions on multiple blind-tech-centric groups in the coming days and weeks when people who've tried to stick with, say, Outlook 2010 or Windows Live Mail are suddenly, and permanently, locked out.

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