Title: Gmail API connection expiring
Last modified: July 12, 2026

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# Gmail API connection expiring

 *  [cortabro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cortabro/)
 * (@cortabro)
 * [2 days, 1 hour ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gmail-api-connection-expiring/)
 * The Gmail API connection seems to require re-authentication every couple of weeks.
   Is this expected behavior or is something misconfigured on my end?

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 * [gmail](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/gmail/)

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 * Last reply from: [cortabro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cortabro/)
 * Last activity: [2 days, 1 hour ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gmail-api-connection-expiring/)
 * Status: not resolved