Agree with the position about that other unmoderated list. I haven't
seen flaming, personal attacks, or even anyone's life being threatened
here unlike recently on that other list. This is a good safe list to
send new folks to Android for help, even if they came from iOS. Also,
no cliques here treating others as outsiders or anyone claiming to be
an expert and treating others like peons.
Just a very good list which offers very good help to all members
without any of the extraneous drama.
My thanks to the owner/mod! Without this list, I wouldn't have a place
to send newbys!
Laz
On 10/28/14, gary melconian <gmelconian619@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks after Google that I found out. For specific application like aqua
mail that does not work with 2 step factor authentication , what you have
to do is give the application an app specific pass word which can be
generated in place of the 2 step factor on Google site. I found this out by
googling. I just set up my outlook with this method and now off to set up
aqua mail and any other third party application which require it. if you
would like I can give a step by step description on how its done when I am
done setting up aqua mail. If you would like. I am heer to help out the
list
unlike the other list which I did not get treated well for my expertise
with
android. Also I am working with a lot of big developers to get application
accessible. so stay tuned and when I hav more to share I will be back to
share. But I will be on the list and not leaving this one as this is a nice
inteluctul bunch of people who do care for one another and are not hostile
towards one another.
-----Original Message-----
From: vi-android-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:vi-android-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Quentin Christensen
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 3:03 AM
To: vi-android@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vi-android] Re: re has any one setu two factor authentication on
aqua mail
Hi Gary,
From memory, as I also have two factor authentication setup but haven't
actually setup aqua mail for awhile, what you do with apps like Aqua mail,
is give them their own unique password in your Google settings.
You can either do this with the Google authentication app (called something
like that, I haven't actually used it), or from a browser. If you go to
google and make sure you are logged in and then go to your account settings
and security and then 'app passwords'. The link is here but may not work
directly: https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords?pli=1
You can then go to "select app" dropdown list on "select device" dropdown
list and generate a password button. That's changed since I last used it -
last time I used it, it generated a 16 character string which you only saw
once and had to copy into whatever app you wanted manually.
The app then has access to your google account using that 'password' until
you come back to this page and revoke it.
One thing I've never tried, is to figure out whether you could copy that
password and use it to get into your account from something else (eg create
a password like that for aqua mail and then try to use it as your login
password through a browser)...
Either way, it's best to keep this list of apps as short as possible and
cull any you no longer need as you can.
Regards
Quentin.
On 28/10/2014 12:11 PM, gary melconian wrote:
Hello I have a question and maybe I am approaching this the wrong
way. I wanted to try out 2 factor authentication with aqua mail, as I got
it working on my computer with gmail. With gmail the 2 factor
authentication
works well for security purposes as going forward everything with Google
will be encrypted so I need to get an understanding of all this. I tried
with aqua mail and it is not working any clues why 2 factor authentication
wont workwith aqua mail.
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