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Created Sep 27, 2012 by David Fifield@dcf

Set up two-factor auth and app-specific password for email registration helper

Gmail has "application-specific passwords" that are intended to allow SMTP and IMAP programs to authenticate without using the main Gmail/Google Account password. For some reason, you can only set this up if you've enabled two-factor authentication.

We should do this because

  1. we can keep the master Gmail password offline, and only allow the facilitator access to IMAP under a different password. A breakin on the facilitator would not, for example, allow the intruder to set a new Gmail forwarding rule.
  2. We can revoke/rotate the IMAP password independently of the master Gmail password.
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