Tests and Notes for EMail Threads

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In support of this forum post
https://eileenslounge.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=38916

The Problem

Previously we could use our normal Username and password for any gmail account in a CDO send mail type coding, (provided that we make one adjustment to our default account settings: We must enable less secure apps in gmail account
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee7PDsbfOUI )
However, since end of May 2022, Google gmail are usually not allowing this to be done.
https://i.postimg.cc/DwWgVM37/Less-S...-available.jpg
Less Secure Apps no longer available.JPG



So if we now run a previously working CDO send mail which uses a normal free mail gmail account, then we experience the typical error which we used to get if we had not enable less secure apps:
https://i.postimg.cc/bNVTBjM6/Typica...ecure-Apps.jpg
TypicalErrorForNoEnableLessSecureApps.jpg

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In this and the next and nearby posts, a solution will be discussed.

A Solution
The short answer:
There has been in parallel for some time, (I don’t know exactly how long), another way to use gmail in CDO send type codings. It finally works similar to how other Email providers have always organised these things: You need to organise a second password to be used in things such as the CDO send mail codings.

The solution often goes under the names of, or you hear often the word when discussing these things of: _ "2 step verification"_ ; _ "Apps passwword"


Here is the shortened story of what you actually do:
There are broadly speaking 2 main parts to what you do
_Part1) You must enable (Turn on) 2 step verification on the gmail account
_Part2) You must generate an "Apps password"
_3) That "Apps password" is now an extra second password for that gmail account which, amongst other things, is what you use in the sendpassword part of the configurations in a CDO send message type coding. ( In other words, you no longer use your main password in the coding. Instead use the generated "Apps password". )

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Ref
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...dditional-info
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...60767#54960767