Also, I feel this move is the latest from Google to lock in users into their apps. App Specific passwords will continue to be supported (for now), but I'm sure it won't be for long...
@joe oh shit. It took me days of reading their API docs to get the very simplest python tool to access gmails in an acct I set up for a business idea. I hate the constant squeezing of utility from these increasingly closed systems from Google and Apple.
@joe as someone who runs my own mail server they regularly block email from my server as spam (we send about 5 personal emails a *month* from it) unless, as the error message helpfully explains, I want o pay them to host the domain.