Hi, I configured Alerts on my Readynas ultra 2 through gmail and I got an email from google that required me to enable insecure apps to access my account. Is it a known bug or something?
Do you use two factor authentication? We don't support two factor authentication for email alerts. Is single factor authentication what Google is referring to when they are talking about enabling insecure apps?
SMTP goes back the early 80s, before security became the concern it is today. Though SMTP has been adjusted to allow a secure transport to the mail server, the overall email protocol suite isn't secure at all - which is why we all receive all those phishing emails.
Technically, SMTP has more than one authentication method - so called "basic authentication" and a newer method using a protocol called "Oauth 2.0". The setting in gmail allows the older "basic authentication" protocol to be used - otherwise it only accepts the newer method. The newer method is of course better, and Netgear should add Oauth 2.0 support the NAS alerting system.
