From: Vasyl Vavrychuk Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2021 04:17:17 +0000 (-0800) Subject: git-send-email.txt: mention less secure app access with Gmail X-Git-Tag: v2.30.1~25^2 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=155067a;p=thirdparty%2Fgit.git git-send-email.txt: mention less secure app access with Gmail 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 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano [dl: Clean up commit message and incorporate suggestions into patch.] Signed-off-by: Denton Liu Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- 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: