Re: reportbug and GMail SMTP servers

[Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com>]

On Sat, Nov 05, 2016 at 04:42:55PM +0200, Sophoklis Goumas wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Anybody else having troubles when using GMails' SMTP servers?
> 
> Does one need to to enable adjust appropriately the "Allow less secure
> apps" setting [1] ?
> 
> Excerpts from my ~/.reportbugrc:
> smtphost "smtp.gmail.com:587"
> smtpuser "olspookishmagus@gmail.com"
> smtptls
> 
> Error messages received:
> Enter SMTP password for olspookishmagus@gmail.com@smtp.gmail.com:587:
> SMTP error: authentication failed.  Try again.
> Connecting to smtp.gmail.com:587 via SMTP...
> Enter SMTP password for olspookishmagus@gmail.com@smtp.gmail.com:587:
> SMTP error: authentication failed.  Try again.
> Connecting to smtp.gmail.com:587 via SMTP...
> Enter SMTP password for olspookishmagus@gmail.com@smtp.gmail.com:587:
> SMTP error: authentication failed.  Try again.
> SMTP send failure: (534, '5.7.14
> <https://accounts.google.com/signin/continue?sarp=1&scc=1&plt=AKgnsbs-\n5.7.14
> 4KseUxkpnd4ZLZDr-do4jBwza3dZKvET3qBcCazVkiD2TVwsWeD1KwWbj4Cz_b8m7O7HE-\n5.7.14
> -7ZjAjS6oxY5WVTKtlcKpofyX3HkQPsSkhhTsCnAiYgKPFD_fjiLUMCZnMe18bezc237Xq\n5.7.14
> gUUazTO6tHljaGpzmXMhJdm8qLK_W5mm2cTE0gfSNKu6MrYwWAoTwT-3GzQBOl7XWRgDji\n5.7.14
> s1KvnQqzHAr9ArBlw7aDzhVoSAQX0> Please log in via your web browser
> and\n5.7.14
> then try again.\n5.7.14 Learn more at\n5.7.14
> https://support.google.com/mail/answer/78754 k2sm8729843wjv.11 -
> gsmtp'). Do you want to retry (or else save the report and exit)?
> [Y|n|q|?]? q
> 


What's not to understand. You do not authenticate properly.
Why is that a debian issue? (It is not)

-H


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