>>I am using one of my Gmail accounts as an SMTP server in a monitor application that I have. It all works really well until it stopped working (isn't that how if always is). I logged into the Gmail account though the website and in addition to putting in my username and password I had to enter the 6 goofy looking characters.
>>Does anyone know if there is a setting in Gmail where I can prevent the email account to have to be looged into manually?
>>Do you know if Yahoo or any of the other free email clients offer SMTP services and do not have this restriction?
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>>Thanks,
>>Einar
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>That happens when Google thinks your account has been compromised by an automated process. Once you enter the characters manually, it will allow you to access normally again. Maybe it was your process that caused it?

Yes I am sure it got locked out because I sent over 1000 emails through my monitor application in a couple of weeks. I am just having a hard time finding documentation from GMail about this.
Have you seen any documentation for this by gmail/google?