Emailing the pgn file after a game

[Scally]

Hi all,

Is anyone else experiencing problems getting the email from Picochess when a game is finished?

I have third-party apps access turned on and everything worked well before my Operation, but I’ve only just set-up the board again and I’m getting security issues. 

Has anyone else had this problem and maybe found a way round this so we can still get emailed games?

Cheers,

Al.

[Henri]

Hi Al,

Are you using a gmail account? If yes the problem might be Google's  two way authentication. In the google account you can link a special password for gmail to any device. That did the trick for me.

Henri

Op zondag 24 april 2022 om 17:47:34 UTC+2 schreef Scally:

[RandyR]

Yes. As Henri mentioned, you'll need to generate an app password and use that as your email password inside picochess.ini.

https://myaccount.google.com/apppasswords

Randy

[Scally]

Cheers Lads, that worked.

I had briefly looked at 2 way authentication, but thought I wouldn’t need it, but I do

👍

Al.

[BillyC]

Hello,

I just discovered this thread and remembered that I still have the email problem. I still do not receive an email from PicoChess after finishing a game. I have a GMX email address and have not been able to find a solution to my problem. I had described the problem elsewhere, unfortunately without a solution. Does anyone have a solution for me?

Billy

[Randy Reade]

Hi Billy,

I can't find your previous post but have you looked at the picochess.log in the /opt/picochess/logs folder? You can adjust the log level in the picochess.ini file.

Randy