I finally got the hang of it!! Apparently I was supposed to set encryption to "ssl" and serverport to 465, but for the past two days I'd been using "tls" for encryption and serverport as 587, once I exchanged them, all was done. I wasn't able to get the hang of gitgitgadget tonight but I'd definitely be looking into it in the coming days. On Sun, Oct 8, 2023 at 11:37 PM Naomi Ibe <naomi.ibeh69@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Oh wow > I read about gitgadget but didn't understand how it works, I'd > definitely check it out with these links you sent and I really hope it > works. Thank you very very much > > On Sun, Oct 8, 2023 at 11:17 PM Kristoffer Haugsbakk > <code@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hi Naomi > > > > On Sun, Oct 8, 2023, at 23:59, Naomi Ibe wrote: > > > I've used the --smtp-debug tag, checked the official docs and other > > > docs too, plus stackoverflow,google and even chatgpt, but nothing > > > seems to be working. I've even had to change my gmail password tonight > > > but it still doesn't work. Any tips at all would be greatly > > > appreciated at this point. Thank you > > > > Here [1] is a good resource for setting up Gmail for git-send-email. It's > > a bit of a chore to set up but that resource was enough for me to get it > > working. One of the things that you are going to need is an App password. > > > > But have you considered using GitGitGadget instead?[2] You can make a pull > > request on that repository and then the program (gitgitgadget) can send > > the emails to this mailing list for you. > > > > [1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/68238913/1725151 > > > > [2] https://github.com/gitgitgadget/gitgitgadget/ > > > > -- > > Kristoffer
