2012-08-14 Two-step verification

My websites have not been sending any email notifications out to people who had subscribed to page edits. The reason was that I had switched my Google account to use 2-step verification. Only today did I realize that the error messages were trying to tell me that I needed an *application specific password* for my script.

2-step verification

Everything should be back in working order. šŸ˜„

I feel relieved. For a while I thought Iā€™d have to dig around in the Perl SMTP libraries. Ugh!

dig around in the Perl SMTP libraries

And I feel much better with 2-step verification. The Mat Honan story was scary.

Mat Honan story

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