On Sun, Nov 06, 2016 at 03:44:49PM +0000, Brian wrote: > On Sun 06 Nov 2016 at 10:28:38 -0500, Henning Follmann wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 06, 2016 at 04:57:02PM +0200, Sophoklis Goumas wrote: > > > On 6 November 2016 at 14:20, Brad Rogers <b...@fineby.me.uk> wrote: > > > > > > > > Because google consider anything not written by them to be "insecure". > > > > For some time now google has disallowed (by default) what they deem to > > > > be > > > > insecure connections. As a result, one has to alter settings to "allow > > > > unsafe connections", or whatever they call it. > > > > > > > > > > Is that really the case? > > > > > > Is Google just being stubborn or are they just actually trying to > > > enforce, in their way, some more secure way which reportbug is not > > > compatible to comply with yet? > > > > > > > It has nothing to do with reportbug. Forget about reportbug here. > > 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 "olspookishma...@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.
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