How to Send Email From HP Printers through Gmail
3 min readJun 2, 2018
On our HP Printer, there is a feature called ‘Send to Email’. You can scan a document and have it sent to your email. What a basic functionality in the 21st century! But I’m having a hard time setting it up — and apparently its success came at the expense of my email security. I have to turn on ‘Allow less secure app’ in my gmail account setting to make it work!
I had mixed feelings about this. Why is it so hard to accomplish such a basic functionality? But it also gives my some sort of assurance. It’s possible to prevent third party tool from…