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

[texasmfp]

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?

[japelin]

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

[texasmfp]

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

[SASKiwi]

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

[ChrisHemedinger · Accepted solution]

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" 
 )
;