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Originally Posted by dunhill View Post
The root of the problem: The end of "less secure apps"
Historically, Calibre used simple authentication (username and password). However, Google and Microsoft (Hotmail/Outlook) have disabled this access to protect users from brute-force attacks.
No they disabled SMTP so they can show their users more ads. Brute force protection is trivial to do with SMTP.
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