> Also, if you use gmail with mutt to submit a patch, you have to change your email preferences to make gmail less secure[1]. According to the article, this is

> Also, if you use gmail with mutt to submit a patch, you have to change your email preferences to make gmail less secure[1]. According to the article, this is because mutt uses IMAP, and needs to use password authentication (which might not even be accurate anymore). This has nothing to do with kernel development, beyond that some kernel developers like to use mutt as an email client.