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Another thing I tried was 2-step verification and creating an APP Password for the account. Then I used that APP password as my authentication password. However at the time it wasn't working, that account the next day mystically was working. Problem is I can't tell which password I left it as.

But that's another tidbit for you to try if my post above doesn't work

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Bernie,

Glad to hear that you were able to get at least a partial solution worked out. Having played around with this for the past year or two, here are some tidbits of information that may come in handy.

1) If you are not using authentication when sending/relaying email, then you're much more likely to get your accounts temporarily locked due to 'spam-like' activity. If at all possible, use SSL or TLS-SSL to authenticate against google's SMTP relays.

2) the ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM mail relay you've been instructed to use has several limitations that may, or may not, affect you. For example, you'll only be able to send emails to addresses under your domain, or other GMail users. You will not be able to send email through this server to anyone who is not hosted on GMail/GoogleApps.

3) For more info about the restrictions imposed by different methods of sending SMTP email via GMail, take a look at https://support.google.com/a/answer/176600?hl=en

4) If all else fails, and you find yourself with an appliance/app that doesn't support SMTP/IMAP/POP authentication, or won't work with your mailhost, take a look at 'stunnel', a simple network daemon that can function as a relay between an insecure system and a secure host/server.

ie: I've got a TaskAlfa 205c MFP which does not support SSL/TLS-SSL and we had no work-around for utilizing the Scan-to-Email functionality with GMail as the SMTP relay/host.

I configured stunnel on a local box with the valid GMail credentials, and had the MFP send all emails to the stunnel-host without any security/authentication. STunnel accepted the mail from the MFP, and then performed all the authenication with GMail, relaying it for delivery. Everything works wonderfully, until someone ignores the multiple signs on the local box and powers the unit off.

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IT Wombat:

Thank you very much. I didn't know a lot of that and will look into stunnel for sure. Thanks!

How about some of the people on here that have had accounts magically start working again? What's your status?

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It has not happened with any of our customers---however, I'm not sure if we have any that use a Gmail account. We use GoDaddy as our website & e-mail provider. Our setup looks pretty much like yours, Bernie--except of course that we use GoDaddy's smtpout.secureserver.net as a SMTP Server. We also use server port 25 as you do.

IT Wombat---that was all good info. Thanks for starting this thread.

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We have experienced this same problem and have moved our PBXs to our own email servers until a patch is released. Allworx says they are working on a patch for this.


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I reverted back to my original settings with GMAIL which is very similar to what was originally posted (using port 465 SSL) and it has been working for the past week now. Maybe Google ironed something out?

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Talk about relay agents, I cannot use telus email in the field. It does not except relay from other agents. I imagine this would be difficult to those of you with the same issue when you want to send a email reply, but your host isp is rejecting a email that is comming in from a third partys relay service. This caused me a huge amount of grief, when I was involved in a big Windows 7 upgrade project for one of the worlds largest timber companies and was getting complaints my emails were not going though in the hotel.

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