[chirp_devel] [OT] patchbomb and gmail

[Tom Hayward]

On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 8:58 AM, Brian Dickman via chirp_devel
<chirp_devel at intrepid.danplanet.com> wrote:
> Since Dan brought up patchbomb, I'll go ahead and ask since my
> google-fu has failed. Have folks had success with using patchbomb
> against gmail lately? I tried setting it up but got an auth/login
> error regardless of which settings I use.
>
> At the moment, the smtp section of my hgrc looks like this:
>
> [smtp]
> host=smtp.gmail.com
> port=587
> username=XX
> password=YY
> tls = True  (also tried = starttls)
>
> Every time, I get an aborted response from mercurial (abort/534), and
> a nastygram from google saying they blocked a sign-in attempt.

Your hgrc is identical to mine (other than XX, YY :-). One difference
may be that I set up an application specific password:
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en

Tom