# [PATCH] send-email docs: Remove mention of discontinued gmail feature 4 messages from 2022-10-01 to 2023-04-28. Participants: Jouke Witteveen, brian m. carlson, Junio C Hamano. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/58538 ## Jouke Witteveen, 2022-10-01 10:46 Subject: [PATCH] send-email docs: Remove mention of discontinued gmail feature Message-ID: <20221001104609.18453-1-j.witteveen@gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20221001104609.18453-1-j.witteveen%40gmail.com ``` Support for "less secure apps" ended May 30, 2022. This effectively reverts 155067a (git-send-email.txt: mention less secure app access with Gmail, 2021-01-08). Signed-off-by: Jouke Witteveen --- Documentation/git-send-email.txt | 8 ++------ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt index 41cd8cb424..0c70ba2647 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt @@ -507,14 +507,10 @@ edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings: smtpServerPort = 587 ---- -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 +If you have multi-factor authentication set up on your Gmail account, you can +generate an app-specific password for use with 'git send-email'. Visit https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords to create it. -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. - Once your commits are ready to be sent to the mailing list, run the following commands: -- 2.37.3 ``` ## brian m. carlson, 2022-10-02 19:11 Subject: Re: [PATCH] send-email docs: Remove mention of discontinued gmail feature Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/YzniVamA97XuwAPr%40tapette.crustytoothpaste.net In-Reply-To: <20221001104609.18453-1-j.witteveen@gmail.com> ``` On 2022-10-01 at 10:46:09, Jouke Witteveen wrote: > Support for "less secure apps" ended May 30, 2022. > > This effectively reverts 155067a (git-send-email.txt: mention less secure > app access with Gmail, 2021-01-08). This seems reasonable and correct. I remember reading that Google will likely require 2FA for all users in the future, so at some point, we may end up removing the "If you have multi-factor authentication…" clause as well. -- brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them) Toronto, Ontario, CA ``` ## Jouke Witteveen, 2023-04-28 11:28 Subject: Re: [PATCH] send-email docs: Remove mention of discontinued gmail feature Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAJ2ouawTq0b%3D1-%2B471u0c6XJZPVwM4f%2Bdg0uNu4-B19332jSiA%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20221001104609.18453-1-j.witteveen@gmail.com> ``` On Sat, Oct 1, 2022 at 12:46 PM Jouke Witteveen wrote: > > Support for "less secure apps" ended May 30, 2022. > > This effectively reverts 155067a (git-send-email.txt: mention less secure > app access with Gmail, 2021-01-08). > > Signed-off-by: Jouke Witteveen Half a year has passed and this patch is still relevant, yet (as far as I can tell) not applied. Regards, - Jouke ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2023-04-28 20:47 Subject: Re: [PATCH] send-email docs: Remove mention of discontinued gmail feature Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/xmqqildfbuop.fsf%40gitster.g In-Reply-To: ``` Jouke Witteveen writes: >> Support for "less secure apps" ended May 30, 2022. >> >> This effectively reverts 155067a (git-send-email.txt: mention less secure >> app access with Gmail, 2021-01-08). >> >> Signed-off-by: Jouke Witteveen > > Half a year has passed and this patch is still relevant, yet (as far > as I can tell) not applied. Yeah, it does not seem to have been applied. Thanks for pinging. Will queue. ```