topic Re: Gmail to suspend 3rd party access soon: SAS email alternatives? in SAS Programming

Gmail to suspend 3rd party access soon: SAS email alternatives?

texasmfp — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 03:11:11 GMT

While learning how to set up SAS to send an email, I had to enable GMAIL to allow less secure, 3rd party access. There is the following note that suggests this avenue will close in a few months. What email client alternatives exist outside of the Gmail SMTP server used by Thunderbird or other clients?

Re: Gmail to suspend 3rd party access soon: SAS email alternatives?

japelin — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 04:05:49 GMT

I don't think this is relevant to SAS too much, so I'll be brief.
Instead of using a username/password combination, why not use an app password?

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/185833?hl=en

Re: Gmail to suspend 3rd party access soon: SAS email alternatives?

texasmfp — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 05:15:40 GMT

How would you set up SAS's Email system options to use an App password rather than the ID and password?

Re: Gmail to suspend 3rd party access soon: SAS email alternatives?

SASKiwi — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 06:28:35 GMT

I'm pretty sure this would be an email client configuration and nothing to do with SAS.

Re: Gmail to suspend 3rd party access soon: SAS email alternatives?

ChrisHemedinger — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 14:36:31 GMT

Use an App password instead. You need to enable your Gmail for 2-factor auth first (which you should do anyway). Then use the App password like you would any SMTP password.

options emailhost= ( "smtp.gmail.com" /* alternate: port=487 SSL */ port=587 STARTTLS auth=plain /* your Gmail address */ id="your_address@gmail.com" /* optional: encode PW with PROC PWENCODE */ pw="your_app_password" ) ;