And tried a few things mentioned in some of the trouble shooting threads that I could find including enabling forwarding, allowing access to the Gmail account by signing out and then back in on a new browser, sending a test email to username+1234@gmail.com (that worked) and so on.
I’m getting the following message every time I try to reply to a PM email that we’re testing:
550 no mailbox by that name is currently available.
Here are all the error messages (as you can see I’ve been trying to figure this out for a while):
We set up a gmail address for the replies, I did make sure POP is enabled.
Since this is my first post, I’m only allowed to upload one image, but I have multiple screenshots of the setup I can send as well if that helps.
Beyond that, I’m just at a loss and can’t figure out where I missed something. It feels like it shouldn’t take 5 hours to figure this out! Any help would be greatly appreciated! Please let me know if you need more information.
I feel you. These sorts of problems can be very frustrating. As it happens, my own reply by email just stopped working though it had been working for months. Different symptoms from you, but anyway…
Do you have 2-factor authorization enabled on the gmail account you’re trying to use for replies?
The tricky thing is that you’ll use discourse.example.com (or whatever your forum subdomain is) for the incoming mail address rather that the gmail address. As long as you don’t mess with your MX record(s) for example.com (and set MX for discourse.example.com) you won’t break anything.
By the way, I meant to say before, you shouldn’t need any forwarding turned on in gmail. If you can setup the solution @pfaffman suggests, that would be great. I can’t because I’m not running my own server.
Sometimes it’s easier to just look at a screenshot and see if you notice anything out of place. These are the Discourse settings that were working for me.
