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Merge branch 'vv/send-email-with-less-secure-apps-access' into maint 

Doc update.

* vv/send-email-with-less-secure-apps-access:
  git-send-email.txt: mention less secure app access with Gmail
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Junio C Hamano 2021-02-05 16:31:25 -08:00
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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: