GMAIL SMTP Settings

Holy Joe · Jun 11, 2022

It seems google have changed something that means apps can no longer access your email account.

Less secure apps & your Google Account - Google Account Help

To help keep your account secure, from May 30, 2022, Google no longer supports the use of third-party apps or devices which ask you to sign in to your Google Account using only your

support.google.com

It's disrupting my cctv and ip cameras from sending me email alerts. I have a gmail account just for sending these alerts - and I type in the google smtp details into the app and it sends emails to my main email account - or at least it used until this change a week or so ago.

Anyone know of any workarounds or alternatives?? I tried setting up an outlook account but that seems to have the same issues.

Anyone else impacted? What are people using to send emails automatically??

Thanks for any help

JAL · Jun 14, 2022

It has caused issues for my company as well as in some cases we have had to use GMAIL accounts for scan-to-email setups.

There's a chance Outlook emails may work (smtp-mail.outlook.com, port 587, STARTTLS) but we haven't tested it yet - we may be doing so today so I will update you.

Let me know if you have found a work around.

Cockle43 · Jun 14, 2022

This issue has also affected a number of call recording apps, basically disabling them, which for anyone wishing to record calls to make sure you've got all the details correct when you haven't got access to pen and notebook is a total pain...

Holy Joe · Jun 14, 2022

JAllen said:
It has caused issues for my company as well as in some cases we have had to use GMAIL accounts for scan-to-email setups.

There's a chance Outlook emails may work (smtp-mail.outlook.com, port 587, STARTTLS) but we haven't tested it yet - we may be doing so today so I will update you.

Let me know if you have found a work around.

I've tried outlook, I suffered the same problem.

Still looking for a solution so please keep me posted

Thanks

Holy Joe · Jun 18, 2022

Just tried yahoo and sendinblue - but I can't get either to work - still stumped on this one!

Should note that I'm no expert at this, so just because I can't get something to work, doesn't mean it doesn't work for everyone!

Holy Joe · Jun 19, 2022

Just found this - looks promising, will give it a go later

After getting the same email about support for less secure apps, I did the following today:

Log into gmail
Click the user icon in the top-right corner and select "Manage your Google Account"
Go to the security page (from the list at the left)
[This is necessary for the next step, but will stop your scripts from logging into smtp with your regular password. This is sort of the point of no return. Make sure you are ready to go all the way and update all of your email-sending scripts before continuing.] Enable two-step authentication.
Once two-step authentication is enabled, go back to the security page. There should now be a new section called "App Passwords". Select it. You will probably be asked to log in again.
Generate a new app password. I put in "Mail" under "select app" and "Other" under "select device," but I don't think any of the information you put it matters.
It will give you a 16-character app password which will be shown in yellow.
Have your scripts use this password to log into smtp instead of your regular password and everything should work. It will not prompt you for 2-step verification.

After doing this, my scripts seem to work. I did not have to make any other changes to the code other than substituting the app password for the original one. Hopefully it helps you too.

Holy Joe · Jun 20, 2022

MattE said:
Just found this - looks promising, will give it a go later

After getting the same email about support for less secure apps, I did the following today:

Log into gmail

Click the user icon in the top-right corner and select "Manage your Google Account"

Go to the security page (from the list at the left)

[This is necessary for the next step, but will stop your scripts from logging into smtp with your regular password. This is sort of the point of no return. Make sure you are ready to go all the way and update all of your email-sending scripts before continuing.] Enable two-step authentication.

Once two-step authentication is enabled, go back to the security page. There should now be a new section called "App Passwords". Select it. You will probably be asked to log in again.

Generate a new app password. I put in "Mail" under "select app" and "Other" under "select device," but I don't think any of the information you put it matters.

It will give you a 16-character app password which will be shown in yellow.

Have your scripts use this password to log into smtp instead of your regular password and everything should work. It will not prompt you for 2-step verification.

After doing this, my scripts seem to work. I did not have to make any other changes to the code other than substituting the app password for the original one. Hopefully it helps you too.