Hi all, I had been using the email-in and reply-by-email features and they were working well for a few months until they suddenly stopped working. I suspected that the polling period was too frequent and google may have blocked my install. I reset the email settings, created a new google apps emai…

Here’s how I would debug it: SSH into your server and then cd /var/discourse ./launcher enter app rails c require "net/pop" pop3 = Net::POP3.new("pop.gmail.com", 995) pop3.enable_ssl pop3.auth_only("username", "password") And check what error you get from the last line.

root@localhost-app:/# rails c You are running an old version of bundler, please upgrade bundler ASAP, if you are using Discourse docker, rebuild your container. [1] pry(main)> require "net/pop" => false [2] pry(main)> require "net/pop" => false [3] pry(main)> pop3 = Net::POP3.new("pop.gmail.com", 99…

The bundle issue is not related. The error is coming from the username/password. Can you log in with these on the webmail? Make sure that Google hasn’t blocked a connection coming from another location (ie. where your server is hosted).

Login to webmail using these credentials works fine. It may be possible that for some reason google has begun blocked polling from my discourse server’s IP address. Is there a way to get google to remove this block? Allow less secure apps is already selected as are the unblocking steps shown in ot…

I’m not sure. Did you enable 2-step authentication by any chances? Or application-specific password?

@brianmcdonald , I realize you may not have the same setup, but I too had a situation when the setup looks good, but on re-click “pop3 polling enabled” it gives the “POP3 authentication failed” error. I have a https only site setup with Google Authentication working on a different machine a few day…

Hello, I’m running into this issue too. I did the diagnostics recommended above and got this error: [image] I’m a little bit lost - does that have something to do with the gmail configuration, or something on our server?

Please make sure you update to latest. This bug was fixed last week.

@gerhard currently running 2.4.0.beta4 which the admin says is latest. Is there another update?

Go to /admin/upgrade to update to latest.

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) September 24, 2019, 1:59am 17

You have to enter that url by hand, not get there from the admin page. Several new commits each day, so it’s unlikely that there are none.

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