Re: format for Gmail "apps" password

Nilo César Teixeira <[email protected]> Sun, 17 Dec 2023 17:25:10 -0300
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If I recall correctly, just join the words, trimming spaces.

Em dom., 17 de dez. de 2023 14:37, <[email protected]> escreveu:

> I basically did some random steps in postfix, but am trying to understand:
>
> https://askubuntu.com/q/1497269/847449
>
> They give an example of:
>
> [smtp.gmail.com]:587 [email protected]:doeadeer
>
>
> but the password for gmail using the "app" generated password is more
> like:  xxx yyy zzz
>
> which includes whitespace.  So how exactly is a password like that stored
> in the file?
>
>
>
> thanks,
>
> Nick
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