From: Vasyl Vavrychuk <vvavrychuk@xxxxxxxxx> 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. Signed-off-by: Vasyl Vavrychuk <vvavrychuk@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> [dl: Clean up commit message and incorporate suggestions into patch.] Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@xxxxxxxxx> --- Range-diff against v3: 1: 274475559a ! 1: 4303fab303 git-send-email.txt: mention less secure app access with Gmail @@ ## Metadata ## -Author: Denton Liu <liu.denton@xxxxxxxxx> +Author: Vasyl Vavrychuk <vvavrychuk@xxxxxxxxx> ## Commit message ## git-send-email.txt: mention less secure app access with Gmail @@ Commit message Document steps required to make this work. - Original-patch-by: Vasyl Vavrychuk <vvavrychuk@xxxxxxxxx> + Signed-off-by: Vasyl Vavrychuk <vvavrychuk@xxxxxxxxx> + Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> + [dl: Clean up commit message and incorporate suggestions into patch.] ## Documentation/git-send-email.txt ## @@ Documentation/git-send-email.txt: edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings: 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..0db0783f2f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt @@ -494,10 +494,14 @@ edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings: smtpServerPort = 587 ---- -If you have multifactor authentication setup on your gmail account, you will +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. +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: -- 2.30.0.284.gd98b1dd5ea
