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send-email docs: Remove mention of discontinued gmail feature
Support for "less secure apps" ended May 30, 2022. This effectively reverts 155067a (git-send-email.txt: mention less secure app access with Gmail, 2021-01-08). Signed-off-by: Jouke Witteveen <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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Documentation/git-send-email.txt

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@@ -484,14 +484,10 @@ edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings:
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smtpServerPort = 587
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If you have multi-factor authentication set up on your Gmail account, you will
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need to generate an app-specific password for use with 'git send-email'. Visit
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If you have multi-factor authentication set up on your Gmail account, you can
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generate an app-specific password for use with 'git send-email'. Visit
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https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords to create it.
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If you do not have multi-factor authentication set up on your Gmail account,
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you will need to allow less secure app access. Visit
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https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps to enable it.
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Once your commits are ready to be sent to the mailing list, run the
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following commands:
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