Re: [ietf-822] WSJ/gmail/ML, was a permission to...

> > Those two problems can be solved in different ways.  Gmail could use a
> > third party's submission server just like they use its pop/imap one.
> Gmail does allow you to use a third party submission server, and it looks
> like we may have to encourage its use even more in the future.
I'm not sure how realistic that is in practice for users who aren't 
uber-nerds.
To set up to use Yahoo's submission server from Gmail, I tried to 
configure it in the popup Gmail provided, which failed with an error 
message that told me to go log in at Yahoo.  I did, didn't help.  After 
some poking around I found a message in my Yahoo inbox that suggested I 
needed an app specific password.  (How many people will realize that Yahoo 
considers Gmail to be an app?)  It provided a link to the place in their 
credential server to create such a password, which is otherwise not easy 
to find.  So I finally found it, and made a password for Gmail, and then 
went back to Gmail, and used it, and indeed it worked.
But how many people without CS degrees are going to be able to go through 
all that?
Regards,
John Levine, johnl(_at_)taugh(_dot_)com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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