Hello, Since yesterday I am having difficulties polling for gmail replies as shown here: [image] These are my Google Account security settings: [image] As you can see I’ve got 2-Step Verification turned off. I’ve also enabled Account access via this page as explained on this topic . However,…

I’m posting the solution here just in case someone else has the same problem. What actually helped was to switch 2-step verification ON, and create an App password and insert it in the Discourse POP3 password setting instead of my usual Gmail account password

[image] meetya: log in credentials are correct Yes - that error from gmail is not an authentication failure. It’s asking you to login from a web browser because it think something fishy is going on with the account. By turning on 2FA you’ve done what gmail was asking - you logged in via a br…

yeah, but before enabling 2-step verification, logging into via web-browser didn’t help either. Probably because Google cannot make the connection between discourse trying to connect (with DO servers in New York) and me connection from a browser in Slovenia. I am using Sparkpost to send emails. I c…

Everything is working now anyway. As far as I understood from the Gmail documentation, it is a recommended approach to give apps, such as Discourse, special App passwords, that you can generate inside your google account security settings, instead of your ‘human’ google password.

I would recommend moving discourse to Amsterdam (it is closer and the newest/best data center) and using the incoming mail server recommended above.

Le sondage par e-mail sur GMAIL ne fonctionne pas

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itsbhanusharma (Bhanu Sharma) Février 20, 2019, 7:26 5

You can maybe consider this as an alternative?

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