Re: git send-email does not work with Google anymore?!

[Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>]

> On 23 Oct 2017, at 18:27, Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2017-10-05 at 12:52 +0200, Lars Schneider wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I used to use the Google SMTP server to send my patches to the list with 
>> the following config:
> 
>> 8 ---
> 
>> Apparently that stopped working today. I get this error:
>> 
>>    (mbox) Adding cc: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> from line 'From: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>'
>>    Password for 'smtp://larsxschneider@gmail.com@smtp.gmail.com:587':
>>    5.7.14 <https://accounts.google.com/signin/continue?...token...
>>    5.7.14 ...> Please log in via your web browser and
>>    5.7.14 then try again.
>>    5.7.14  Learn more at
>>    5.7.14  https://support.google.com/mail/answer/78754 ... - gsmtp
>> 
>> Of couse I tried to log in via web browser etc. Does anyone else use 
>> Google as SMTP server? If yes, does it work for you?
> 
> For 2fa-protected accounts, this seems to break quite often. I ended up
> setting up a mail relay on my vps for this. If you want, you can use
> git.seveas.net to send patches to the git mailing lists (doesn't work
> for other recipients, I'm not quite stupid enough to run an open mail
> relay...)

:-) ... unfortunately that also means one can not CC people using your
server. Looks like I need to setup my own solution after all :-(

Cheers,
Lars