Re: [PATCH v3] git-send-email.txt: mention less secure app access with Gmail

From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Jan 7, 2021, 20:37 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPig+cSG0WMs2TRVDOWxSsoRD2Qo_+kGm2QTGgQC+sLjyGZ9ow@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <274475559a6de9c95c9c6cd30b5d056a31cc2853.1610017875.git.liu.denton@gmail.com>

On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 6:12 AM Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Google may have changed Gmail security and now less secure app access
> needs to be explicitly enabled if two-factor authentication is not in
> place, otherwise send-email fails with:
>
>         5.7.8 Username and Password not accepted. Learn more at
>         5.7.8  https://support.google.com/mail/?p=BadCredentials
>
> Document steps required to make this work.
>
> Original-patch-by: Vasyl Vavrychuk <vvavrychuk@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>

Thanks for picking this up.

Has this version changed in any substantial way from Vasyl's v2[1]? If not, perhaps it makes sense to retain his authorship and sign-off.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200829153920.17155-1-vvavrychuk@gmail.com/