On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 05:32:24PM +0000, Brian wrote: > On Mon 07 Nov 2016 at 16:32:24 +0200, Sophoklis Goumas wrote: > > > On 7 November 2016 at 15:52, David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > > Did you encode it in Base64, or is what you type it into > > > doing this on your behalf? > > > > > > > Just typed the password, as always. Meaning unencoded. > > This is another part that maybe I haven't cleared out. > > > > I never had an MTA setup, I always had the postfix packages > > and their documentation for educational purposes, but this > > was never actually setup to send and receive email. > > > > Regardless, reportbug WAS working. > > > > Once more, what I'm trying to figure out is why should reportbug > > be labeled as a less secure app and what needs to be done > > in order to be able to send reports through it without having to > > "lower" down your Google security profile. > > I do not know what a Google security profile is and have no intention > of finding out. I do not want one but presumably you do. How do you > know reportbug is being labelled as anything by Google? If your mail > is not being relayed by Google it is between you and them and nothing > to do with reportbug. A command to use for testing has been given. > > Anyway, I followed the "Using GMail's SMTP Server" section on the wiki > to the letter and had no problem sending a report to the BTS. It was > done with complete security. > > That is the second test of the Google mail system I have done. Your > setup at Google may be different from mine. That is where you want to > look. It is you that have to change; don't expect Google to. >
Amen! This should now be official gospel for the rest of this thread. Class dismissed. -H -- Henning Follmann | hfollm...@itcfollmann.com
