thanks again Mike - it did work just as you said. but anyone doing this, be prepared to change everything you have sending emails right then, as soon as you change this, "allow less secure apps" turns

OK thanks, I will look into that. That's a new one on me, but looks promising. Brian N3OC

right, the red section says this will no longer work after 5/22. Just trying to get a leg up on it so my email alerts don't stop working. they work fine today, but will no longer after 5/22 without ch

Looks like Google is once again going to make things difficult. I got an email saying they were disabling the "allow less secure apps" setting this coming May for free G-mail users. (And later on a ro

Google forced it on November 9th for all "free" accounts, at least here in the USA. I have three of them and they all went on 11/9/2021. Thanks for the info on setting up the app password, that is pro

FYI when Google forced TFA on for free accounts on Nov 9, my email alerts stopped working (using swithmail). I did find I could go in to Google account settings and turn two-factor back off, and alert

Hi Laurie, no I didn't. WSTX-X was just set to UDP on the loopback address 127.0.0.1. I changed it to multicast and ticked the selection in jtalert will watch it a while and see if that fixes it. WSJT

Ah, OK got it. Some more info on my problem. A fresh install would NOT work with .NET desktop runtime 5.08 - it said .NET was not found. I had to install the full runitme 5.08 to get it to work at all

Hi I'm a new jtlaert user, and it seems to work fine but after a couple hours all decodes stop in the callsigns window. The only thing that fixes this is stopping and restarting jtalert. Stopping and