Hi everyone, I’m hoping I can get a little bit of help on this. I’m not supremely tech confident so I’m sure I’ve done something wrong on my end. I’ve gone through this thread and I thought set it up correctly: https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-up-reply-via-email-support/14003/139 And tried a few…

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?

Thanks for the reply. I have that set as off in the gmail settings.

And do you have the “Less secure app access” enabled for that google account? Link to the right settings page, here , but double check that you’re signed in to the right account when you get there.

Yup, less secure apps is enabled.

This one scares me, logging into the server might be above my paygrade. But will check this one. Thanks.

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. If you’ve go…

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 pla…

Here’s my setup: [Admin%20-%20The%20Eighty%20Club%20(2)] Now looking at yours, I see I should switch the pop3 polling username to the gmail reply account it looks like.

Yes. I suspect that will fix it! Fingers crossed for you.

Getting 'address not found' error trying to set up reply via email

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Getting 'address not found' error trying to set up reply via email

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