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: [afbeelding] 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 an…

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!

POP3-polling en SMTP-verzending falen beide plotseling

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JammyDodger 4 juli 2022 om 07:34 2

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

Topic		Antwoorden	Weergaven
Troubleshooting Gmail 'Poll via POP3 for email replies' Support	6	4072	1 mei 2017
Connection to the POP3 server is failing with an authentication error. Please check your POP3 settings. (revisited) Support	1	73	10 juni 2026
Gmail POP3 needs an app password nowadays Support	1	984	9 juni 2022
Connection to the POP3 server is failing with an authentication error. Please check your POP3 settings Support	5	4382	26 juni 2022
Starting new topics by email - Job exception: execution expired Support	4	2233	30 maart 2016

POP3-polling en SMTP-verzending falen beide plotseling

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