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Re: reportbug and GMail SMTP servers

From Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: reportbug and GMail SMTP servers
Date 2016-11-07 00:00 +0100
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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 <brad@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 "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.

Mark

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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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