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 --- 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..5aed3f5b1d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt @@ -494,6 +494,10 @@ edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings: smtpServerPort = 587 ---- +If you do not have multifactor authentication setup on your gmail account, you +need to allow less secure app access. Visit +https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps to enable it. + If you have multifactor authentication setup 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. @@ -505,7 +509,7 @@ following commands: $ edit outgoing/0000-* $ git send-email outgoing/* -The first time you run it, you will be prompted for your credentials. Enter the +The first time you run it, you will be prompted for your credentials. Enter the app-specific or your regular password as appropriate. If you have credential helper configured (see linkgit:git-credential[1]), the password will be saved in the credential store so you won't have to type it the next time. -- 2.23.0
