Using your Gmail account for sending automated SMTP emails
Submitted by rahul on October 19, 2015 - 11:01pmBlogging just tad short of a full year, oh well...
Anyways, I today came back to the admin section of my website after a loooong time and noticed automated email alerts from the site (for example comment notification emails) have been failing for sometime. The site uses a Google Apps account to dispatch emails, and I din't thought anything had changed on the account for smtp email delivery from the site to fail.
I tried sending a test email and got this error in my site logs (email addresses changed for obvious reasons):