on a new delta installation, when being asked about “simplified setup” after entering the email address, answer “cancel”. then enter your gmail password.
on existing delta installation, go to “profile / account settings” and change “advanced / auth method” to “automatic”. then enter your gmail password.
this does not affect oauth2 in general, only google. eg. yandex oauth2 is working as always.
Tried to use gmail with oauth2 there is no connection, the messages don’t appear as mails and i can send myself none.
As by now the app is still useless for me, i am very sad.
Do i have to quit or is there another Workaround to connect to gmail but reduce security by chosing to allow less secure apps?..
not really, you can enable two steps auth if you really care about security, and then generate an app password for delta chat, that said:
Delta Chat is open source, you could read the code and check with your own eyes they don’t steal your password or something like that
Consider not using Gmail it self if you really care about privacy
“less secure apps” isn’t any risk if you enable it to use Delta Chat it self, since that refers to other privative/untrusted apps that could steal your password, if you enable that setting to use just Delta Chat and not for other wierd email client, it should be fine, anyway generating an app password is more secure, once again, you are using gmail anyway so you shouldn’t be carying that much