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kovidgoyal · 08-12-2014, 10:30 PM

There's nothing insecure about TLS. gmail just wants you to use it only from webapps with oauth. In any case if you dont want to disable oauth, then create a dummy gmail account and use it only for calibre.

08-12-2014, 10:30 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,418 Karma: 27757236 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	There's nothing insecure about TLS. gmail just wants you to use it only from webapps with oauth. In any case if you dont want to disable oauth, then create a dummy gmail account and use it only for calibre.