How to send an email through gmail without enabling 'insecure access'?

Question

Google are pushing us to improve the security of script access to their gmail smtp servers. I have no problem with that. In fact I\'m happy to help.

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Answer 1

Have you considered using the Gmail API? The API has security features built in and is optimized specifically for Gmail. You can find the API documentation on http://developers.google.com - for example, here's the documentation for the Send API call:

https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/v1/reference/users/messages/send