Watching: Why am i getting “web login required” message while connecting to gmail via imap?
Cause
The “web login required error” means that Gmail
is not recognizing your password oryou are signing from a new location or device oryou have enabled 2-Step Verification for your account.You need to generate an Application specific password for MsgExtract.
See Generating an application password when 2-Step verification is enabled in GmailGoogle detects your login as suspicious. It could be because you are login in from a different country.
Resolution
Refer to the following page on how to proceed to solve this issue:
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/78754
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answered May 24 “16 at 4:26
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