Just weighing in with my 2˘ on the "App Password" thing with Gmail.
I agree. It's the only way to get the machines I deal with (Ricoh) to function at all with Gmail. I can't speak to others, but I assume it would be the same. So it's what I've been doing for ages, rather than lowering the security which is obviously just a BAD idea.
I would also add that if you have a client with multiple MFP's, the same APP password can be used on all of them
As for SMTP2go, I also use it quite often on legacy machines that don't support encryption. Every so often I have an issue of messages getting filtered to spam at the initial configuration, and I can usually resolve it by using a fake email address for the senders (or admin) email address like
scanner@noreply.ca, rather than the actual admin email address - which is completely opposite of what one would expect
.
Once it's configured and working properly, it's extremely reliable. I've never had an issue with it.
I will also add that SMTP2go can no longer be used with "free" email providers like Gmail, hotmail, etc, and most ISP providers, it must be configured via a clients domain email like
abc@xyzcompany.com.
I'm not sure when that actually happened, because I used to configure it without issue via Gmail, etc, and I actually have my own gmail account associated with an SMTP2go account that still works.
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