[Emacspeak] Re: Loss of Access to Gmail - Text Mode

[Jim Green <2greensinva@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, it's working now.  Not sure why.  Maybe I screwed up the password.
My age is catching up with me.

Thanks.

Jim



On Thu, 2 Jun 2022, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. via Emacspeak wrote:

> I don't know but I just logged in using mutt and found I can assess my
> gmail.
>
> John,
>
> The problem is that he is locked out even when using a GUI, I guess because
> google has never seen him in the
> graphical user interface because he is a text mode only guy.
>
>
> He gave me his password and google won't let me log in - I'm 400 miles
> distant from him, and my browser has never
> been logged into his gmail account before.
>
> There is NO way to change the recovery email and the Google verification
> server is broken. I'm not going to give the
> exact email account here but I'm going to give an example.
>
> Other methods.
>
>
> Send a verification email to: n***@v******.***
> Use a browser logged into gmail.
> Tell us the recovery email account n***@v******.***
>
> Obviously, it's a verizon.net account and since I use n1ea(a)arrl.net I
> "probably" had n1ea(a)verizon.net expecially when it hints at n*** - so I put
> in the correct account, and it says "incorrect".
>
> That is not incorrect, but there is NO way of contacting gmail for those
> blind users who didn't anticipate gmail being so fussy about verifying
> their account.
>
> If google would just allow logging in with the right account name and
> password - everything would be OK.
>
> But it isn't they are adding layers of extra requirments - and now is not
> the time to do that with a major change just happening.
>
> Best wishes,
> David
>
>   John Covici wrote:
> Thu, Jun 02, 2022 at 05:15:32PM -0400
> Show quoted text
> I don't know but I just logged in using mutt and found I can assess my
> gmail.
>
> John,
>
> The problem is that he is locked out even when using a GUI, I guess because
> google has never seen him in the
> graphical user interface because he is a text mode only guy.
>
>
> He gave me his password and google won't let me log in - I'm 400 miles
> distant from him, and my browser has never
> been logged into his gmail account before.
>
> There is NO way to change the recovery email and the Google verification
> server is broken. I'm not going to give the
> exact email account here but I'm going to give an example.
>
> Other methods.
>
>
> Send a verification email to: n***@v******.***
> Use a browser logged into gmail.
> Tell us the recovery email account n***@v******.***
>
> Obviously, it's a verizon.net account and since I use n1ea(a)arrl.net I
> "probably" had n1ea(a)verizon.net expecially when it hints at n*** - so I put
> in the correct account, and it says "incorrect".
>
> That is not incorrect, but there is NO way of contacting gmail for those
> blind users who didn't anticipate gmail being so fussy about verifying
> their account.
>
> If google would just allow logging in with the right account name and
> password - everything would be OK.
>
> But it isn't they are adding layers of extra requirments - and now is not
> the time to do that with a major change just happening.
>
> Best wishes,
> David
>
>   John Covici wrote:
> Thu, Jun 02, 2022 at 05:15:32PM -0400
>
> Show quoted text
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> From: "David J. J. Ring, Jr." <n1ea(a)arrl.net>
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> Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2022 17:29:34 -0400
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