Re: reportbug and GMail SMTP servers
On Mon 07 Nov 2016 at 14:46:01 (+0200), Sophoklis Goumas wrote:
> On 7 November 2016 at 00:51, Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 06, 2016 at 03:44:49PM +0000, Brian wrote:
> >>
> >> I'd agree with that (it can be tested if needs be). In his reportbug
> >> preferences file Sophoklis Goumas has
> >>
> >> smtphost "smtp.gmail.com:587"
> >> smtpuser "olspookishmagus@gmail.com"
> >> #smtppasswd "my password here"
> >>
> >> The third line is commented out.
> >>
> > This. This is the answer. As usual Brian has nailed it. The OP is not
> > supplying a password when logging in. Google are not going to be happy
> > about that.
> >
>
> Instead of having my password in cleartext in a text file, I've
> prefere to have it
> commented out, so whenever reportbugs will need it, it will ask me for it.
>
> As I've displayed in my initial post, namely:
>
> Enter SMTP password for olspookishmagus@gmail.com@smtp.gmail.com:587:
> SMTP error: authentication failed. Try again.
>
> Between these lines I input my password and then hit Enter.
Did you encode it in Base64, or is what you type it into
doing this on your behalf?
Cheers,
David.
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