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SOLVED - Vikunja Email Config Help (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Does anyone have a working Vikunja instance sending emails through Gmail? I’ve enabled the mailer options and entered the info but the test_email function times out. I’ve checked all the information and even tried different ports.

Honestly at this point it doesn’t have to be Gmail (I’m just most familiar with this workflow). I just need my Vikunja instance to send emails.

Edit: I was able to solve my issue. You can only create Gmail app passwords if you have 2FA enabled. I also had the wrong address (it’s smtp.gmqil.com not smtp.google.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't use gmail anymore for some time, but as far as I know, you have to set an "app password" or something like that. Did you set that? Because it won't work with your normal user password.

Also, you could check the logs Vikunja produces to see what the problem is. Is it really a timeout or maybe something else?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I was under the impression that Google retired the "app password" workflow and moved to Gmail API within Google Cloud. I have the API set up and that's what I'm using in the Vikunja configs but like I mentioned in the post, at this point I don't care if its Gmail or something else. I just need the email functionality to work so I will use whatever service works well with Vikunja.