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Re: reportbug and GMail SMTP servers

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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 <deblis@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

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Henning Follmann           | hfollmann@itcfollmann.com

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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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