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Anyone had issues with Gmail accounts and SMTP?

I have set up my latest site and this if the first client that uses a Gmail account e.g. @gmail.com. I've set up plenty Perch sites with SMTP and google apps and never had a problem however on my live server I keep getting "SMTP Error: Could not authenticate." in the Settings > Email test.

I've tried multiple tests and all of these work on the same site/server

  • change SMTP to a google apps account
  • ran a test with Mailtrap
  • all forms are going into the DB fine.

I tried the following settings

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define('PERCH_EMAIL_METHOD', 'smtp'); define('PERCH_EMAIL_HOST', 'smtp.gmail.com'); define('PERCH_EMAIL_AUTH', true); define('PERCH_EMAIL_SECURE', 'ssl'); // also tried "tls" define('PERCH_EMAIL_PORT', 465); // also tried "587"

~~~

The only thing I can think of is that Gmail has changed the privileges or there is a setting I am missing on the free account.
Andrew Cetnarskyj

Andrew Cetnarskyj 0 points

  • 7 years ago
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

7 years ago

If you log into your Google account, do you get any security notices? It may be that you need to step down to a security mode that allows for SMTP from an 'unknown' server.