[PATCH] Documentation/git-send-email.txt: Mention less secure app access might need to enable.
- From
Vasyl Vavrychuk <vvavrychuk@gmail.com>
- Date
- Aug 29, 2020, 15:39 UTC
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- <20200829153920.17155-1-vvavrychuk@gmail.com>
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- <CAPig+cT8Kmh6LcoKqkcJX6imXaase07o8C_-7k7RkyhEyW02rQ@mail.gmail.com>
Looks like Google changed Gmail security and now less secure app access needs to be explicitly enabled if 2-factor authentication is not in place, otherwise send-mail fails with:
5.7.8 Username and Password not accepted. Learn more at 5.7.8 https://support.google.com/mail/?p=BadCredentials v5sm13756502ede.13 - gsmtp
Signed-off-by: Vasyl Vavrychuk <vvavrychuk@gmail.com> --- Documentation/git-send-email.txt | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt index 0a69810147..06953fd1e0 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt @@ -494,7 +494,11 @@ edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings: smtpServerPort = 587 ---- -If you have multifactor authentication setup on your gmail account, you will +If you do not have multi-factor authentication set up on your Gmail account, you +will need to allow less secure app access. Visit +https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps to enable it. + +If you have multi-factor authentication set up on your Gmail account, you will need to generate an app-specific password for use with 'git send-email'. Visit https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords to create it.
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