Title: Error When Authenticating through Gmail
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Error When Authenticating through Gmail

 *  Resolved [beardo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beardo/)
 * (@beardo)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-when-authenticating-through-gmail/)
 * Error authenticating with this Client ID – please create a new one. [Error executing
   wp_remote_post: Connection timed out after 10000 milliseconds]
 * I have set this up in the past and never had this issue – Basically once I fill
   in the client ID and client secret – it tells me to authenticate and then I get
   the error above. Any thoughts?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/postman-smtp/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/postman-smtp/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Jason Hendriks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jasonhendriks/)
 * (@jasonhendriks)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-when-authenticating-through-gmail/#post-6067107)
 * Go into the Google dev console, delete the Client ID/Client Secret and create
   a new one.
 * Why? Wrong user logged into Google, or wrong redirect URL, or a new Gmail address
   that has never been logged into, or Google is just having a bad day.
 *  Thread Starter [beardo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beardo/)
 * (@beardo)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-when-authenticating-through-gmail/#post-6067130)
 * I tried creating a new client ID and got the same result. I went into incognito
   mode and created another gmail address and setup everything and still encountered
   that error. There were no other gmail accounts logged into at the time. Could
   this be a server setting on my end?
 *  Plugin Author [Jason Hendriks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jasonhendriks/)
 * (@jasonhendriks)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-when-authenticating-through-gmail/#post-6067133)
 * I’m going to try it right now..
 *  Plugin Author [Jason Hendriks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jasonhendriks/)
 * (@jasonhendriks)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-when-authenticating-through-gmail/#post-6067134)
 * You know, re-reading your initial post… you had a timeout. Which is not an error,
   but Google just taking longer than usual. The plugin waited 10 seconds and then
   gave up.
 * If you’re 100% sure you have no problems reaching [https://accounts.google.com](https://accounts.google.com)
   from this server, try increasing the Connection Timeout to 30 seconds in the 
   Postman advanced settings.
 * is this a new host? Possible firewall issues?
 *  Thread Starter [beardo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beardo/)
 * (@beardo)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-when-authenticating-through-gmail/#post-6067163)
 * This is a new server – and we upgraded our firewall – Here is the most recent
   error after changing the time to 30 seconds. [Error executing wp_remote_post:
   Failed to connect to [http://www.googleapis.com](http://www.googleapis.com) port
   443: Connection timed out]. If you think this is a firewall issue Ill get out
   server admin to take a look – Thanks!
 *  Plugin Author [Jason Hendriks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jasonhendriks/)
 * (@jasonhendriks)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-when-authenticating-through-gmail/#post-6067164)
 * Yes, looks like a firewall. What does the Connectivity Test say?
 *  Thread Starter [beardo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beardo/)
 * (@beardo)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-when-authenticating-through-gmail/#post-6067165)
 * Port 587 is the only one open – all the other ports are closed
 *  Plugin Author [Jason Hendriks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jasonhendriks/)
 * (@jasonhendriks)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-when-authenticating-through-gmail/#post-6067168)
 * 443 (the secure web port) is closed as well? That explains why you can’t authenticate
   with Google. Unfortunately you’ll have to use password authentication if you 
   can’t get 443 open.
 *  Thread Starter [beardo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beardo/)
 * (@beardo)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-when-authenticating-through-gmail/#post-6067211)
 * It was that easy 🙂 opened up that port and everything worked properly! Thanks
   for instruction.
 *  Plugin Author [Jason Hendriks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jasonhendriks/)
 * (@jasonhendriks)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-when-authenticating-through-gmail/#post-6067212)
 * Great!! 🙂

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