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git-send-email.txt: mention less secure app access with Gmail

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Google may have changed Gmail security and now less secure app access
needs to be explicitly enabled if two-factor authentication is not in
place, otherwise send-email fails with:

	5.7.8 Username and Password not accepted. Learn more at
	5.7.8  https://support.google.com/mail/?p=BadCredentials

Document steps required to make this work.

Signed-off-by: Vasyl Vavrychuk <vvavrychuk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
[dl: Clean up commit message and incorporate suggestions into patch.]
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Vasyl Vavrychuk 2021-01-07 20:17:17 -08:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -494,10 +494,14 @@ edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings:
smtpServerPort = 587
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If you have multifactor authentication setup on your gmail account, you will
If you have multi-factor authentication set up on your Gmail account, you will
need to generate an app-specific password for use with 'git send-email'. Visit
https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords to create it.
If you do not have multi-factor authentication set up on your Gmail account,
you will need to allow less secure app access. Visit
https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps to enable it.
Once your commits are ready to be sent to the mailing list, run the
following commands: