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mikefolu
mikefolu

Reputation: 1323

Laravel - Failed to authenticate on SMTP server with username

Using Laravel-5.8 to send notification, I am getting this error:

Failed to authenticate on SMTP server with username "[email protected]" using 3 possible authenticators. Authenticator LOGIN returned Expected response code 23 ▶
535 5.7.8  https://support.google.com/mail/?p=BadCredentials n13sm8684140wmd.21 - gsmtp
". Authenticator PLAIN returned Expected response code 235 but got code "535", with message "535-5.7.8 
Username and Password not accepted. Learn more at
535 5.7.8  https://support.google.com/mail/?p=BadCredentials n13sm8684140wmd.21 - gsmtp
". Authenticator XOAUTH2 returned Expected response code 250 but got code "535", with message "535-5.7.8 
Username and Password not accepted. Learn more at
535 5.7.8  https://support.google.com/mail/?p=BadCredentials n13sm8684140wmd.21 - gsmtp

It was working before, but suddenly began to mis-behave

this is my .env

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
MAIL_PORT=465
[email protected]
MAIL_PASSWORD=****
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=ssl

What do I do?

Thanks

Upvotes: 7

Views: 30511

Answers (4)

frankie
frankie

Reputation: 11

create an app password on google account. you will need to enable two step verification for this feature.

the password will be something like this with spaces in between "** **** ***" ***Remember to put your password from the Gmail app password into the .env file as the mail password.

input this as the email password WITHOUT the spaces in between, but put it in double quotes as below.

MAIL_MAILER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
MAIL_PORT=587
[email protected]
MAIL_PASSWORD="password"
[email protected]
MAIL_FROM_NAME="my app"
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls

Youre good to go now.

Upvotes: 1

Hamidreza
Hamidreza

Reputation: 148

1- You must enable two-step verification from the Google Account section, security section, Signing in to Google section.

2- After completing the two-step verification, in the same Signing in to Google section, go to the App passwords section and create a password for the service or device or program you want (PHPMailer or anything else). (On the App passwords page, on the section Click Select app and choose Other option, a text field will be displayed and you should enter PHPMailer or a desired name and then press the Generate button, it will give you a 16 character password.)

3- Copy the displayed password and enter the PHPMailer password in the coding section.

Upvotes: 0

Alprod Grm
Alprod Grm

Reputation: 53

I had the same problem under symfony. I went into my google account and generated an application password via this link

generated password app

Attention you will receive a password with several characters.
Example: 'azer tyui opq'

you will need to replace the spaces with the url code.
Example: azer%20tyui%20opq

In my env file. For me that to work

Upvotes: 4

nulele
nulele

Reputation: 386

I have the same your problem today. For months the smtp has been working well and suddently today it gives me the same your error.

For what it worth I simply solved, re-generating the password in google Account -> Security -> App passwords.

It's not the first time this happend to me. Maybe it's some sort of Google protection... but I didn't found evidence of that anywhere. Anyway it's very annoying.

What I wonder is how to catch this kind of error so that we can intervene on time.

Upvotes: 8

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