Re: Setting up gmail for git send-email

[lucy <coleclough.lucy@gmail.com>]

Thank you this works nicely and seems to bypass the need for 2fa
All the best

On 30/05/2024 09:25, Philip McGrath wrote:
> On 5/29/24 23:21, Imran Iqbal wrote:
>>> I am unsure if my reply on debuggs was sent, i am yet to get a email address
>>> that supports git send-email,
>>
>>> Also if anyone sees this and has an invite to riseup email service ( should
>>> the service be capable of handling another stranger) then please may i have
>>> a invite?, google sux
>>
>> I know that this is not the main point of your email (hence changing the
>> subject), but I would like to chime in on how I get my gmail to work git
>> send-email. The easiest way is to just have it use another program. In
>> my case I use msmtp.
>>
>
> Along those lines, when this email address used to be hosted on Gmail infrastructure, I used sendgmail, which is specifically designed for git send-email and implemented using the Gmail API.
>
> I packaged it for Guix at the time: https://packages.guix.gnu.org/packages/sendgmail/
>
> There are instructions for obtaining the necessary API key at <https://github.com/google/gmail-oauth2-tools/tree/master/go/sendgmail>, and I saw just now that there were some commits several years of inactivity! (During that time, I changed hosting for this email address, so I haven't used sendgmail lately.) One commit obsoletes our "sendgmail-remove-domain-restriction.patch", and it looks like others may be necessary to satisfy new authentication requirements imposed by Google.
>
> Philip