Skip to content

Issues using Gmail SMTP

Reza Akhavan edited this page Apr 21, 2015 · 3 revisions

When using your Gmail SMTP credentials, you may get an error like:

Error Sending: Email failed to send. Error: authorization.failed

Obviously this could happen if your credentials are wrong, so be sure to double check them.

Potential Cause #1

Try using tls: true instead of ssl: true in your email config.

Potential Cause #2

Another reason this could happen is because you have 2-factor/2-step authorization setup. In this case you need to create an app specific password.

Use the Force

I hope this was helpful. If you have questions or think this page should be expanded please contribute by opening an issue or updating this page.

Clone this wiki locally