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

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't know how you can change your contact inforation without going
to a browser, but at least you have alpine working.

But you MUST somehow change your contact inforation, so that there is
a working email account or cellphone number to recover your account.

Best wishes,
David

On Thu, Jun 2, 2022 at 8:12 PM Jim Green <2greensinva(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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> > address couldn't be found, or is unable to receive mail.
> > The response from the remote server was:
> > 550 5.1.1 <emacspeaak(a)emacspeak.org>: Recipient address rejected: User
> > unknown in local recipient table
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: "David J. J. Ring, Jr." <n1ea(a)arrl.net>
> > To: John Covici <covici(a)ccs.covici.com>, emacspeaak(a)emacspeak.org
> > Cc:
> > Bcc:
> > Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2022 17:29:34 -0400
> > Subject: Re: [Emacspeak] Re: Loss of Access to Gmail - Text Mode
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