How to add Gmail to multiboxi: app password

What you need

2-Step Verification turned on for your Google Account.
A personal account. App passwords may be unavailable for work and school accounts, so ask your administrator.
App passwords are also unavailable if you use Advanced Protection or 2-Step Verification with security keys only.

If you do not have 2-Step Verification yet, turn it on in your Google Account settings (Security).
Open the app passwords page: myaccount.google.com/apppasswords. Google may ask you to sign in again.
Enter a name such as “multiboxi” and create the password. Google shows it only once, so copy it.
In multiboxi choose “Add a mailbox”, then the Gmail tile. Enter your email address and password.
The wizard checks the connection and shows the mailbox folders. Give the mailbox a name and a colour.

Why now: from January 2027 Gmail stops fetching mail from other accounts. What exactly changes.
When you change your Google Account password, all app passwords stop working. Create a new one and enter it in the mailbox settings in multiboxi.
You can revoke the app password on the same Google page. multiboxi then loses access to Gmail.
Gmail labels appear in multiboxi as folders (if they are visible in IMAP in your Gmail settings).
Google discourages app passwords where you can use Google account authorisation (OAuth) instead. multiboxi does not support that yet; we will add it later.

Wrong password message: check that you are entering the app password (without spaces), not your main password, and that IMAP access is turned on.
You can enter a new password later in the mailbox settings in multiboxi, without removing the mailbox.

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