Gmail as SMTP for Sending out Subscription and Login Emails

Developer help
1

Latest version.

Can anyone please clarify this for me as I must be confused… ?
I don’t use the newsletter and therefore, I don’t use the MailGun setup.

I have edited the config.production.json file to include the SMTP for sending emails using Gmail. This is the file code for that:

  "mail": {
    "transport": "SMTP",
    "options": {
      "service": "Gmail",
      "from": "'name' <gmail@gmail.com>",
      "host": "smtp.gmail.com",
      "port": 465,
      "secureConnection": true,
      "auth": {
        "user": "gmail@gmail.com",
        "pass": "mypassword"
      }
    }

Am I missing something here? No emails are coming through.

2

Supposing what you’re trying is even possible, might this be one of those cases where you have to turn on the “allow less secure apps” functionality?

3

Yep, might be. But I have that turned on. From what I understand, we should be able to use any IMAP / SMTP email to send transactional emails, right? Not bulk, just transactional.

5

Did you ever get this working?
Someone marked the google response as the answer but you replied that less secure apps function was already enabled before you asked your question.