No Longer Use CDO with GMail

WARNING – Google/GMail has announced:

Less secure apps & your Google Account
To help keep your account secure, starting May 30, 2022, Google will no longer support the use of third-party apps or devices which ask you to sign in to your Google Account using only your username and password.

Please note this deadline does not apply to Google Workspace or Google Cloud Identity customers. The enforcement date for these customers will be announced on the Workspace blog at a later date.Google

This was brought to my attention by a post by ngins on UtterAccess:

Using CDO with Gmail After May 30th

I currently use CDO to send system message emails from my app. We are using a Gmail account created for these notification messages, with "Allow less secure apps" enabled in Gmail.

However, I just received an email from Google stating:...

So that seems to indicate that e-mail techniques such as CDO Mail will cease to work as of May 30th! So if you use any username/password techniques, start planning today so you are not caught off-guard in May.

Workarounds?

Perhaps look towards the “Use an App Password” from the “Fix problems” section of the article, but their article is very poor and I’m not certain if that will continue to work after May 30th, or not?!

You may also like to start thinking of using an alternate e-mail strategy strategy:

MS Access - How To Send An Email

Now here’s a question we see all the time in the various forums. As usual, there are a number of ways to accomplish this and which one you should use has a lot to do with your needs and abilities. In this post, I’m going to briefly discuss the 3 most popular approaches: SendObject method…

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Or perhaps stop using GMail altogether!