Vasyl Vavrychuk <vvavrychuk@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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: 'send-email' I presume? > 5.7.8 Username and Password not accepted. Learn more at > 5.7.8 https://support.google.com/mail/?p=BadCredentials v5sm13756502ede.13 - gsmtp Is the v5sm1375... part stay constant that everybody would get the same thing? Otherwise, ... otherwise send-email fails with an error message from Gmail server telling the user to "Learn more" at https://support.google.com/mail/?p=BadCredentials would be preferrable. > Signed-off-by: Vasyl Vavrychuk <vvavrychuk@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > 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. In 2020, we should probably list the instruction for those with 2 factor first and then give "less secure app access" as a fallback. IOW, I'd suggest the order of these two paragraphs swapped. Thanks.
