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How to setup Default Email Action?

Ingmar Koecher

started a topic about 5 years ago

I want an email notification to be sent from my Gmail account to another Gmail account. Under the Default Email tab in actions, I entered both sender's and recipient email address. Under Primary Email Server(SMTP), I entered smtp.gmail.com, Port: 465, and TLS and then username and password of my Gmail account.

But Sending a test email always returns an error "Unable to Send, Mail Server Responded: SMTP Protocol error 530 5.5.1"

Tried enabling imap and pop of both gmails and everything I could find on the internet.

I think the problem is with authentication, The username and password should be of the smtp server, and not of my gmail account is what I think, but I don't know how to find that either.

Please help.

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Steven Flowers said about 5 years ago

Hello,

In your Gmail settings have you tried to allow less secure apps? Google deems anything that isn't a mail client a "less secure app", so have you tried the following:

Go to the Less secure apps section of your Google Account.
Turn on Allow less secure apps. If you don't see this setting, your administrator might have turned off less secure app account access.

Also, you'll need to use the username/password of your Gmail account to be able to use Gmail to send with EventSentry.

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Steven Flowers

said about 5 years ago

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Hello,

In your Gmail settings have you tried to allow less secure apps? Google deems anything that isn't a mail client a "less secure app", so have you tried the following:

Go to the Less secure apps section of your Google Account.
Turn on Allow less secure apps. If you don't see this setting, your administrator might have turned off less secure app account access.

Also, you'll need to use the username/password of your Gmail account to be able to use Gmail to send with EventSentry.