
Not that someone is on the phone and tells you to read the code google sends to you to enter a lottery. Then please don't grant access and don't tell anyone the code you get. Eventually someday there may be a hacker, who got your right password and tries to login. Whenever you login, you will be asked for a token, which comes via sms or app. And once you have it, always be cautious if you see a request coming to your device. Now you should have a 2 factor authentication enabled for your account. Since the cacert expires someday, you may need to update that every few years. By using only this certificate, you can avoid a man in the middle attack with a certificate from another CA.

We have the cacert-google.pem file on our blog, which contains the GlobalSign Root CA - R2 used by Google. # You may want to put in the root certificate related for google. # This turns TLS on and requires connection to be encrypted # set server without SSL here, as we enable TLS later You can enable that option and then just use your login to gmail for our email functionality. Gmail has an option to allow use of less secure applications. Keep this separate to your other accounts.

Don't use your main account, but maybe have an extra gmail account to send your emails and process the bounces. In general if you use an account for automating processing of emails, it may be good to make a separate account. Now Gmail has some security enhancements. The EmailParser functions help to parse emails and our IMAP Email example shows how to use them to load emails and preview them in a web viewer.

All with proper text encoding, so your umlauts or asian characters survive. Our SendMail functions help assemble emails including html content, inline graphics and multiple attachments.

Using CURL functions we do the transfers for SMTP, POP3 and IMAP. GMail for emails with MBS Plugin As you may know we have support for sending and receiving emails with our MBS FileMaker Plugin and MBS Xojo Plugins.
