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git-send-email.txt: mention less secure app access with Gmail
authorVasyl Vavrychuk <vvavrychuk@gmail.com>
Fri, 8 Jan 2021 04:17:17 +0000 (20:17 -0800)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fri, 8 Jan 2021 06:44:28 +0000 (22:44 -0800)
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@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
[dl: Clean up commit message and incorporate suggestions into patch.]
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation/git-send-email.txt

index 0a69810147e451d7cac290020f009631b1da9e46..0db0783f2fece2be44ae929d434bb665502131bc 100644 (file)
@@ -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: