On Mon 07 Nov 2016 at 14:46:01 (+0200), Sophoklis Goumas wrote: > On 7 November 2016 at 00:51, Mark Fletcher <mark2...@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 "olspookishma...@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 olspookishma...@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.
