Gmail app password — for VEGA (4 minutes)

Unlocks: VEGA reads your inbox overnight and sends the Hinglish digest. Read-only — it can never send mail, never marks anything as read.

Use a dedicated demo mailbox (recommended)

Create a fresh Gmail like aquila.vega.demo@gmail.com instead of your real inbox. It keeps the demo clean and the bot's access tightly scoped. If you'd rather use your real inbox, that works too — read-only, nothing is modified.

Steps (Google changed the menu in 2025)

  1. Sign in to the Gmail account → myaccount.google.com.
  2. Security → turn 2-Step Verification ON (required; you can turn it off later if needed).
  3. Go to myaccount.google.com/apppasswords (the direct page; the old "App passwords" menu item is hidden now).
  4. App name: Aquila VEGA → Create.
  5. Google shows a 16-character password like abcd efgh ijkl mnop. Copy it without spaces.

Send back (in our chat)

IMAP_USER=aquila.vega.demo@gmail.com
IMAP_PASSWORD=abcdefghijklmnop

What I do next

  1. Put it in .env; restart the stack.
  2. Create a VEGA bot for your number and force-run the morning-digest routine so you see a real digest on Telegram immediately.

Safety