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: [imagen] 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 se…

Awesome thanks @JammyDodger - I’ll get onto that for the POP side of things.

To confirm this solved my Gmail issue - just enabled 2FA and created a 16 character app password. Now just gotta figure out the weird SMTP timeout stuff!

El sondeo POP3 y el envío SMTP fallan repentinamente

Soporte

JammyDodger 4 Julio, 2022 07:34 2

Creo que ahora tienes que habilitar la autenticación de dos factores (2FA) en tu cuenta de Google y configurar una contraseña de aplicación:

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Connection to the POP3 server is failing with an authentication error. Please check your POP3 settings. (revisited) Support	1	93	10 Junio 2026
Gmail POP3 needs an app password nowadays Support	1	1009	9 Junio 2022
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Starting new topics by email - Job exception: execution expired Support	4	2269	30 Marzo 2016

El sondeo POP3 y el envío SMTP fallan repentinamente

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