How to Create an App Password in Gmail for Sending Emails From Hasleo Backup Suite?

Updated on June 13, 2025 by Admin to Free Windows Backup Software

This tutorial describes how to create an app password in Gmail for sending Hasleo Backup Suite email notifications. The main contents are as follows:

What is an App Password for Gmail?

Gmail, developed by Google, is one of the world's most popular email services, boasting billions of active users thanks to its free and easy-to-use nature. Given the hundreds or thousands of third-party apps and services connected to it, Google had to come up with reliable ways to ensure these accounts remain secure. App password is one of those ways, which simply means creating a separate password for each third-party app. Therefore, even if the app password is compromised, your primary Gmail password remains secure.

 

Tutorial to Create an App Password in Gmail for Sending Emails From Hasleo Backup Suite.

Step 1. Sign in to your Google Account at: https://accounts.google.com/signin

Step 2. You must enable 2-step verification before creating an App password. If you haven't done this yet, please enable it first.

    2.1). Open the Account Security page (https://myaccount.google.com/security). Scroll down to the "How you sign into Google" section.

    2.2). Click 2-Step Verification and follow the on-screen prompts to complete the setup.

enable 2-step verification
 

Step 3. Open the App Password page :https://myaccount.google.com/apppasswords. Enter the App name and click "Create". The newly generated app password will be displayed.

create App password
 

created App password
 

Step 4. To enable email notifications via Gmail, enter your Gmail account and the generated App password into the corresponding fields on the Hasleo Backup Suite email notification page.

send email with Gmail App password
 

Conclusion

This tutorial describes how to create an app password in Gmail and then use it to configure email notifications in Hasleo Backup Suite.