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## Prelude
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This is a short story about how I configured myself out of my own email. Posting
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this as an exercise in humility, a tutorial for my future self in case of
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amnesia, and penance for my sins.
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## Background
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- I have 2x Gmail accounts: **work** and **personal**.
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- I configure **work** to send emails as **personal**.
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- I configure **personal** to forward incoming emails to **work**.
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This allows me to use **work** and manage both of my inboxes as one. I recently
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added two-factor authentication (2FA) to **personal**, forgot about it, and
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spent a few days unable to send **personal** emails from any **work** device.
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## Symptoms
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Whenever I tried to send emails on behalf of **personal**, I'd receive the
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following error message as a reply:
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> You're sending this from a different address using the 'Send mail as' feature.
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> The settings for your 'Send mail as' account are misconfigured or out of date.
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> Check those settings and try resending.
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Useful error message if you ask me (especially in retrospect), but because I had
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*forgotten* that I setup 2FA for **personal**, I naively assumed this issue
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might magically disappear given enough time... kind of how restarting your
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device resets the state and causes the symptoms of a certain class of bugs to
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disappear.
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After a few days of mounting frustration, I decided to take a closer look...
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## Solution
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- Create an "App Password" for **personal**:
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[instructions](https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en).
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- Login to **work** and delete **personal** from `Settings > Accounts > Send
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mail as`.
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- `Add another email address` for **personal** using the "App Password" you
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just created.
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And now I'm back in business!
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