Hi David,

Thanks for testing.

From what you describe, a Google App Password seems like a great solution, 
specific to an application so the master user/pass is not replicated over all 
your AstLinux boxes. Also relatively easy to revoke a lost App Password and 
regenerate a new one.

Lonnie


> On Jul 26, 2024, at 8:22 AM, David Kerr <da...@kerr.net> wrote:
> 
> Lonnie,
>   I have tested google App Password and yes it works for us.  The password is 
> automatically generated, 16 characters in length (displayed in 4 blocks of 4, 
> must exclude the spaces when entering it).  The password is displayed only 
> once, you cannot retrieve it again, only delete it.  And I think I read that 
> if you change your regular password then new app passwords have to be 
> generated again.
> 
> David.
> 
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 5:24 PM Lonnie Abelbeck <li...@lonnie.abelbeck.com> 
> wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> Generating a Google App Password seems like a reasonable solution.  Trying to 
> guess "long term" wrt Google is probably a fools errand.
> 
> Does a Google App Password work properly with our msmtp implementation?
> 
> Lonnie
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > On Jul 25, 2024, at 2:49 PM, David Kerr <da...@kerr.net> wrote:
> > 
> > It looks like I can use an App Password and that should survive Sept 30th.  
> > See... https://services.google.com/fh/files/emails/b_298235749.pdf
> > and link on that leads to... https://support.google.com/mail/answer/185833
> > 
> > But it may be that long term we will need to support OAuth ??
> > 
> > David
> > 
> > On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 3:35 PM David Kerr <da...@kerr.net> wrote:
> > Google Workspace is turning off username/password access for all 
> > applications.  I use this for my outbound SMTP Mail Relay on AstLinux.  
> > Effective Sept 30th this will no longer work.  I do not know if this is 
> > just for Google Workspace or for all Google/Gmail accounts.
> > 
> > I either need to be able to authenticate AstLinux to Google's SMTP server 
> > with OAuth or switch to some other SMTP mail relay service.
> > 
> > What are my options?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > David
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