external email programs bypass two-factor authentication
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Hi, I noticed that I can log in to an email program with a simple password, even though I have two-factor authentication enabled everywhere (i.e. in Cloudron itself and in SnappyMail).
Is this a bug that you can log in just like that? After all, there are also app passwords.... -
Hi, I noticed that I can log in to an email program with a simple password, even though I have two-factor authentication enabled everywhere (i.e. in Cloudron itself and in SnappyMail).
Is this a bug that you can log in just like that? After all, there are also app passwords....@userino yeah, it's that way because IMAP/SMTP have no concept of sessions. This means that you might have to repeatedly enter 2FA token which would in turn make using mails clients quite unusable.
I recommend generating an app password for Email (what I use personally) and using that as a "throwaway" password. It will work only for Email an won't let you login to other apps.
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