Thank you this works nicely and seems to bypass the need for 2fa All the best
On 30/05/2024 09:25, Philip McGrath wrote: > On 5/29/24 23:21, Imran Iqbal wrote: >>> I am unsure if my reply on debuggs was sent, i am yet to get a email address >>> that supports git send-email, >> >>> Also if anyone sees this and has an invite to riseup email service ( should >>> the service be capable of handling another stranger) then please may i have >>> a invite?, google sux >> >> I know that this is not the main point of your email (hence changing the >> subject), but I would like to chime in on how I get my gmail to work git >> send-email. The easiest way is to just have it use another program. In >> my case I use msmtp. >> > > Along those lines, when this email address used to be hosted on Gmail > infrastructure, I used sendgmail, which is specifically designed for git > send-email and implemented using the Gmail API. > > I packaged it for Guix at the time: > https://packages.guix.gnu.org/packages/sendgmail/ > > There are instructions for obtaining the necessary API key at > <https://github.com/google/gmail-oauth2-tools/tree/master/go/sendgmail>, and > I saw just now that there were some commits several years of inactivity! > (During that time, I changed hosting for this email address, so I haven't > used sendgmail lately.) One commit obsoletes our > "sendgmail-remove-domain-restriction.patch", and it looks like others may be > necessary to satisfy new authentication requirements imposed by Google. > > Philip
