Hey Folks, I have a strange issue here and wonder if someone’s random brainstorm might help me solve it! For several years I’ve run a Discourse forum with no issues. Suddenly in the last few days I’ve had errors in my Dashboard (and logs of course) showing that the Gmail POP3 password is failing …

I think you now have to enable 2FA on your Google account, and set up an app password: [image] Connection to the POP3 server is failing with an authentication error. Please check your POP3 settings support I recommend turning on 2FA on the account and setting up an App Pa…

POP3 polling and SMTP sending both suddenly failing

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JammyDodger July 4, 2022, 7:34am 2

I think you now have to enable 2FA on your Google account, and set up an app password:

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POP3 polling and SMTP sending both suddenly failing

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