On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 09:15:39AM +0200, Flo Rance wrote: > Hi, > > Click on your avatar, then Google Account, then Sign-In & Security. At the > bottom of the page, there's "Allow less secure apps". > > You can't choose which app is a less secure app, because this option may be > understood as "re-enabling Basic Authentication" which means "plain-text > password authentication". > > By default, Gmail only allows Oauth authentication.
<off-topic rant... SCNR> Yeah, well, wouldn't it be nice if only we had a system that would allow us to grant (possibly limited) access to specific applications by, say, issuing them a little authentication something that they could present to the authorities... we might even call it a "ticket"... but of course, not everything with access should be able to issue tickets, so we may have a ticket-granting ticket and a normal access ticket... ...yeah, wouldn't it be nice... </rant> Sometimes I do feel like an old-timer... G'luck, Peter > Regards, > Flo > > On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 7:55 PM, Roger Bohl <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Early in 2018, around the time when I upgraded my system to Windows 10, > > the Stunnel and Blat files that had worked fine with my Vista PC would not > > work with the new PC. However, the "bug" turned out to be unrelated to the > > change in operating systems, but rather an "upgrade" to Gmail: > > Coincidentally, about that time, Gmail evidently decided to stop accepting > > e-mails from apps deemed "a less secure app", including Stunnel-Blat, with > > Blat then displaying messages: > > > > *** Warning *** The SMTP server did not accept Auth PLAIN value. > > *** Warning *** Are your login userid and password correct? > > *** Warning *** The SMTP server did not accept Auth LOGIN PASSWD value. > > > > Only a failure message sent to my "backup e-mail address" led me to > > explore this as a possible cause for what I had thought was, but turned out > > not to be, a Stunnel-Blat problem. Gmail has an option to suppress this > > heightened security feature, and when I activated this option, my > > Stunnel-Blat tools immediately began to function as intended. > > > > > > While I was at first able to enable Gmail to "Allow access from "less > > secure accounts," I have been unable to get through Gmail options > > consistently to turn this on and off and share this info with others. (I > > would welcome instructions that work consistently.) > > > > I would also welcome guidance on how to include Stunnel-Blat as a specific > > alllowed app, without having to enable Gmail to enable *all* "less secure > > apps" > > > > Roger Bohl -- Peter Pentchev roam@{ringlet.net,debian.org,FreeBSD.org} [email protected] PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13
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