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Re: reportbug and GMail SMTP servers

From David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: reportbug and GMail SMTP servers
Date 2016-11-07 15:00 +0100
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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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reportbug and GMail SMTP servers Sophoklis Goumas <olspookishmagus@gmail.com> - 2016-11-05 15:50 +0100
  Re: reportbug and GMail SMTP servers Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2016-11-05 16:50 +0100
    Re: reportbug and GMail SMTP servers Sophoklis Goumas <olspookishmagus@gmail.com> - 2016-11-05 17:30 +0100
      Re: reportbug and GMail SMTP servers Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2016-11-06 13:10 +0100
        Re: reportbug and GMail SMTP servers Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2016-11-06 13:30 +0100
          Re: reportbug and GMail SMTP servers Sophoklis Goumas <olspookishmagus@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 16:00 +0100
            Re: reportbug and GMail SMTP servers Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2016-11-06 16:10 +0100
              Re: reportbug and GMail SMTP servers Sophoklis Goumas <olspookishmagus@gmail.com> - 2016-11-07 14:00 +0100
            Re: reportbug and GMail SMTP servers Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2016-11-06 16:30 +0100
              Re: reportbug and GMail SMTP servers Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-06 16:50 +0100
                Re: reportbug and GMail SMTP servers Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-11-07 00:00 +0100
                Re: reportbug and GMail SMTP servers Sophoklis Goumas <olspookishmagus@gmail.com> - 2016-11-07 13:50 +0100
                Re: reportbug and GMail SMTP servers David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-11-07 15:00 +0100
                Re: reportbug and GMail SMTP servers Sophoklis Goumas <olspookishmagus@gmail.com> - 2016-11-07 15:40 +0100
                Re: reportbug and GMail SMTP servers Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-07 18:40 +0100
                Re: reportbug and GMail SMTP servers Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2016-11-07 18:50 +0100
                Re: reportbug and GMail SMTP servers Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-11-09 16:00 +0100
                Re: reportbug and GMail SMTP servers Sophoklis Goumas <olspookishmagus@gmail.com> - 2016-11-09 16:00 +0100
  Re: reportbug and GMail SMTP servers emetib <chadbrabec@gmail.com> - 2016-11-05 18:00 +0100
    Re: reportbug and GMail SMTP servers Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2016-11-05 20:30 +0100
      Re: reportbug and GMail SMTP servers Sophoklis Goumas <olspookishmagus@gmail.com> - 2016-11-05 22:10 +0100
        Re: reportbug and GMail SMTP servers Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 13:00 +0100
          Re: reportbug and GMail SMTP servers Sophoklis Goumas <olspookishmagus@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 16:00 +0100
            Re: reportbug and GMail SMTP servers Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2016-11-06 16:50 +0100
              Re: reportbug and GMail SMTP servers Sophoklis Goumas <olspookishmagus@gmail.com> - 2016-11-07 14:00 +0100
                Re: reportbug and GMail SMTP servers Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-11-07 17:10 +0100
    Re: reportbug and GMail SMTP servers Sophoklis Goumas <olspookishmagus@gmail.com> - 2016-11-05 22:00 +0100
      Re: reportbug and GMail SMTP servers emetib <chadbrabec@gmail.com> - 2016-11-05 23:20 +0100
        Re: reportbug and GMail SMTP servers Sophoklis Goumas <olspookishmagus@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 16:00 +0100
          Re: reportbug and GMail SMTP servers emetib <chadbrabec@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 17:00 +0100

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