Email account that works for this mailing list _and without a cell phone number_

[Colin Law]

On Fri, 17 Oct 2025 at 14:32, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Am Freitag, dem 17.10.2025 um 09:16 -0400 schrieb Little Girl:
> > Hey there,
> >
> > Oliver Grawert wrote:
> >
> > > It's not like you need to use it for more than receiving these SMS
> > > after all and for banking stuff like paypal it actually makes a lot
> > > of sense to have two factor auth ...
> >
> > The Ubuntu repositories contain the oathtool package, which can be
> > used for 2-factor authentication without needing a phone.
>
> Well, yes and no ... depends on the mail service you want to use...
> I.e. the gmail docs say:
>
> "To use oathtool with Gmail, you must have previously set up the
> account to use a 2-Step Verification app like Google Authenticator."
>
> So you need a smartphone first to use G-Authenticator to do the initial
> setup and can only later switch over ...

I think you can use other apps, such as BitWarden, which is great, as
the authenticator.

Colin

>
> ciao
>         oli
>
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