Denton Liu <liu.denton@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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> > --- Thanks for tying loose ends. Will replace. > 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:
