Zhivko

Alright, this makes sense. We're going to try it. Thank you!

In the logs you can clearly see that forum software tries to authenticate using PLAN even when TLS or SSL is selected.

There is no "APP specific login" when it comes to SMTP. You login with your email and password. That's it. Gmail requires SSL always and you can choose TLS or not. IN the forums you can not setup SSL since (ssl://smtp.gmail.com) is not a valid url according to the forums functions. You can choose TLS, but i believe communication between forums internal smtp function and the actual smtp is buggy. A working example of successful SMTP connection/login and usage with gmail SMTP servers would be nice. I am yet to find one.

Hello, InvisionCommunity supports SMTP but it doesn't work with google mail servers. It is trying to login to the mail servers using plain text password even when settings say it should use TLS and SSL. The error is clear, it is trying to login to smtp.gmail.com using plaintext username and passwords without encrypting them. As such, we're unable to use SMTP for our forums. In case you are wondering, We have confirmed the email account and password are working and we have no problem logging.