If you don’t know what this means, it is probably safe to skip this post. For clarity though, SGPro offers a way to provide a “push” status of the current sequence. You can send notification messages to email, your phone (as text messages) or to a specific file that other applications may read.
Summary (tl;dr)
On May 30th 2022, Google will disable the method SGPro uses to send notifications from your Gmail account. A version of SGPro released in the near future will require that you re-connect Gmail in a new, secure manner.
Continue for more details… otherwise, that’s pretty much all you need to know…
More on External Notification Channels here: Notification System
If you are affected by this, you will need to take action in a week or so. We will post when a release is available for you to actually take action, but we want to spread the word early so you don’t waste clear-sky time on this…
WHAT
For years, SGPro has used a direct SMTP server connection to Gmail. It required that you enter your username and password and SGPro would save that info (to your computer) and use it to send sequence notifications as email messages on your behalf. On May 30th 2022, Google will be disabling this functionality and you will be required to re-connect to Gmail using the Google Recommended secure method. This process uses a method for sign in to your Google account where:
- Your username and password never pass through SGPro
- If you give SGPro permission, you can understand clearly the scope of what SGPro can do with it
The new connection method is simple and SGPro asks only for Permission to send email on your behalf and nothing else. SGPro will not be able read any information about anything in your Gmail account. This new connection is not automatic and must be completed by you.
WHO
If you use an email channel for external notifications and your SMTP server is smtp.gmail.com then you are affected.
WHY
Google will be disabling this functionality for all Gmail accounts because it is wildly unsecure. We have never attempted to use your login credentials for anything other than the purpose we state, but the fact remains, that it is possible that we could.
WHEN
Google will terminate access to its SMTP servers on May 30th, 2022. A new version of SGPro that supports secure connections to Gmail will be released before then.
Please let us know if you have any questions about any of this…