News: access removal of "Less Secure Apps" in Google

[anon46495926]

Grain of salt warning: Drew Devault’s (nearly 2 year old) review said Tutanota did not support your own domain, but Tutanota says they do, for paid accounts, now.

Posteo gives 2 GB storage for 1 Euro per month, versus 1 GB from Tutanota for the same price. If you don’t need to use your own domain, I couldn’t find a bad review of Posteo.

[Licaon_Kter]

As usual, do some research before deciding

/LE: Another report, see PDF: Which e-mail providers work well with Delta Chat? Quite some :) - Delta Chat

[Simpostor]

The problem with privacy arises when you pay for your anonymous mail account.
Even with bitcoin payment you lose some of your privacy

[Licaon_Kter]

Got a bit of time to test, and it works…

So:

• needed only once, Firefox (Desktop), setup about:config
• security.webauth.webauthn_enable_usbtoken set to false
• security.webauth.webauthn_enable_softtoken set to true
• check it, go to https://webauthn.bin.coffee/ press Create, if you get a green background and a bunch of text it’s ok
• read Turn on 2-Step Verification - Android - Google Account Help
• follow steps, select “physical key”, follow prompts
• it should just pass
• go back to Security, enter 2-step verification, scroll to Authenticator
• get FreeOTP+ (I tested this) or other and scan the QR code to setup
• go back, go to Security (physical) key, remove it (so it does not depend on this Firefox instance, eg. doing this in Private mode will destroy the virtual usb token lol)
• save backup codes, put them somewhere safe

Great, now, go back to Security, App passwords, set as many as you want. I tested with Fairemail from F-Droid and Thunderbird and they work fine.

/PS: revert the Firefox settings too

[Licaon_Kter]

@M66B would ^^^ be a good candidate for FairEmail FAQ update? There’s a lot of strike-through text in your FAQ and the app has 2 buttons for OAuth and whatnot that just say “NOT FOR YOU!!!11”