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Wordpress smtp.google.com issue on Windows azure

When sending gmail SMTP mail from Wordpress on a windows Azure website, something goes terribly wrong.

I managed to send once or twice a message, but mostly the authentication get's denied. And we get a lot of message of gmail, asking if we authenticated. Or if we are hacked.

Now the weird thing is that when i log in to the Gmail account on MY computer. Go to the following url and accept: https://accounts.google.com/b/0/DisplayUnlockCaptcha . it suddenly works (for some time, and only form my pc).

As the worpress website is hosted on a Windows azure website, we can not log in on the server to navigate to this url:https://accounts.google.com/b/0/DisplayUnlockCaptcha from there.

Anyone got a solution for this issue? (As i don't have RDP on our azure Website, we can't access the machine to whitelist the ip).

Reference: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/10336?hl=en

Upvotes: 0

Views: 422

Answers (1)

Wenbing Li
Wenbing Li

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You can try to generate an application-specific password for your gmail SMTP if you enable 2-step verification. That may help you to avoid manual CAPTCHA resolve.

I would still like to recommend SendGrid as you are using Azure. SendGrid is provided as an add-on in Azure. You can easily apply a SendGrid service and get 25,000 email per month for free.

Upvotes: 1

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