Setting up Gmail server with the plugin

  • manou

    (@manou)


    11 years, 2 months ago

    Hello;
    yesterday I downloaded this plugin (Newsletter Ver. 3.8.2) on a new wp blog (ver 4.2.2) on a new free subdomain and free host to see how it works.
    I could not make the mailing works, so I installed Postman SMTP Plugin (Ver. 1.6.22),did the setting for this plugin, it needed to get a Client ID for web application in google, so I did and everything was OK,
    Did the following testing:
    Grant Permission with Google
    Send a test Email
    And The Test was OK.
    the recommended setting are: SMTP-STARTTLS with OAuth 2.0 authentication to host smtp.gmail.com on port 587.

    but still can not do the mailing works in newsletter SMTP setting tab.
    Here is the pictures for Postman SMTP setting:
    PostMan SMTP Setting

    and here is the picture of SMTP setting area of Newsletter:
    Newsletter SMTP Setting

    In the Newsletter SMTP setting as you see on the picture, I have filled all the setting, and did mail test, which fails to connect to smtp, I did test with different setting:
    using No Secure Protocol,
    TLS protocol,
    SSL protocl,
    and also set the Smtp to No,
    and also changed the port to 443 as well,
    with no result and connection to smtp fails.

    the host is free and access to SMTP is not possible, so I want to use Gmail server to send newsletter.
    appreciate your help.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/newsletter/

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  • Jason Hendriks

    (@jasonhendriks)

    11 years, 2 months ago

    Jan Dembowski suggested that postman SMTP plugin may work with the newsletter plugin

    I think we need the author Stefano to jump in. @satollo? Can this plugin use wp_mail to deliver newsletters?

    Yes I am sure the password is correct, perhaps I should try another SMTP plugin.

    If Gmail has disabled your password authentication, you have only two choices:

    • Disable Gmail security and then Newsletter’s SMTP mode should work
    • Switch to OAuth 2.0, and Postman SMTP is the only plugin for WordPress that supports that

    Stefano will probably recommend you switch from Gmail to SendGrid.

    Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    11 years, 2 months ago

    Can the forum automatically censor posts?

    I am 99.9999% sure that’s not an option. Imagine maintaining that list?

    For other cases you need a moderator to inspect any post containing the keywords “AUTH PLAIN” or “AUTH LOGIN”.

    That’s not practical either. The moderators find topics like anyone else and don’t so any searching. I happened to come across this topic because I was reviewing the spam queue. I did not (nor will I to be honest) look for those AUTH strings.

    I’ve not looked (but will) but is there a filter on the function that produces that report in the plugin?

    Jason Hendriks

    (@jasonhendriks)

    11 years, 2 months ago

    Imagine maintaining that list?

    Sure.. Lots of publishing software has censor regex! Not so far-fetched.

    F[U|u]ck/F*ck 😉

    is there a filter on the function that produces that report in the plugin

    In Newsletter? I doubt it. In WP Mail SMTP? No. In Postman? No. But that would defeat the point. Having the unmodified transcript can be crucial to troubleshooting.

    Thread Starter manou

    (@manou)

    11 years, 2 months ago

    Now the email Testing works, but the confirmation mail does not get there.

    what I did, changed the gmail account password, and put the new made password in the SMTP Setting of newsletter, and did the send email test again, and I got a test email on my hotmail account.
    this is the only thing I did.

    as Jason Hendriks suggested to Disable Gmail security, that was the first thing I did to Allow less secure apps be able to connect to gmail server.
    anyhow I did a test signup and I should get a confirmation email, but I have not got any.

    Plugin Author Stefano Lissa

    (@satollo)

    11 years, 2 months ago

    Hi, the test which is working is the test from the SMTP settings or from the diagnostic panel? On SMTP setting panel do you enable the SMTP?

    The first error you got (SMTP -> ERROR: Failed to connect to server: (0)SMTP connect() failed.) means the provider is blocking connections to that server.

    Gmail has strict limits on the number of emails you can send per DAY, be sure to respect this low limit (it should be 500 per day), is not exactly what I’ll use to send a newsletter… but it can be used untile the number of subscribers remain very low.

    Stefano.

    Jason Hendriks

    (@jasonhendriks)

    11 years, 2 months ago

    Hi @satollo, am I correct in saying that Newsletter and plugins that override wp_mail (like Postman SMTP) are not compatible? What is the purpose of the direct call to PHP Mailer -> send() in plugin.php?

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