Gmail will block all third party mail clients starting from June. That is, unless they pay $4500 minimum for an audit.

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[–]BravoVictor 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah, I believe Google's policy has been to auto-deactivate the "less secure clients", e.g. the normal username/password authentication every user normally uses through the web UI, for scripts ever 6 months. I've run into that myself for some script automation I've written and it's really fucking annoying. Especially because the alternative, setting up Google API tokens, is a massive fucking PITA and is horribly documented and poorly supported.

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Is the API token thing even standard SMTP? I would hate to set up some non-standard thing just to support a single supplier that has already pissed me off.

At some point I'll probably either find or just set up a damned SMTP server. I swear, the security/privacy eggheads just ruin everything...