By any chance does the gmail account in question now have two factor
authentication turned on?
Eric
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> On Dec 11, 2016, at 6:21 PM, João M. S. Silva <joao.m.santos.silva_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I have been using subversion-tools to send post-commit e-mails. I use
> the mailer.py and mailer.conf.example to create my own configuration
> file. This has worked for years.
>
> However, recently I get this error:
>
> smtplib.SMTPException: SMTP AUTH extension not supported by server
>
> Searching for a solution, it seems we have to run "starttls" before
> "ehlo", but I don't think I can change that, the way I'm running it.
>
> I'm simply calling mailer.py with the correct configuration file. I
> checked if my configuration file was up to date (comparing with the one
> from the subversion-tools package) and it is.
>
> So, the problem should be inside subversion-tools, right?
>
> I'm sending the post-commit e-mail through Gmail, so maybe some recent
> change in Gmail's server could also be the culprit?
>
> Thanks.
>
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> João M. S. Silva
Received on 2016-12-12 08:25:21 CET