RobertA Posted May 3, 2022 Share Posted May 3, 2022 The door stations use gmail's less secure account authorizations when sending outgoing emails. But gmail is discontinuing this on May 30, 2022. Is there a workaround planned to allow door stations to continue sending emails as of June 1? Gmail's Less secure apps & your Google Account notification in help states: To help keep your account secure, starting May 30, 2022, Google will no longer support the use of third-party apps or devices which ask you to sign in to your Google Account using only your username and password. Please note this deadline does not apply to Google Workspace or Google Cloud Identity customers. The enforcement date for these customers will be announced on the Workspace blog at a later date. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Africa C4 user Posted May 3, 2022 Share Posted May 3, 2022 I was wondering the same thing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAV Posted May 3, 2022 Share Posted May 3, 2022 Found this.... (nice of them to provide step by step instructions)https://support.reolink.com/hc/en-us/articles/360039461654-How-to-Generate-an-APP-Password-in-Gmail-Email-Account Short story, you'll setup a specific password in your Google email account for each 3rd party app to use, rather than 3rd party apps all using your main gmail password. South Africa C4 user 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertA Posted May 3, 2022 Author Share Posted May 3, 2022 Nice sleuthing and discovery, RAV! I followed your link and followed those instructions, generated a unique "control4" app password, and in the door station property's password field, replaced my account password with the generated app password. Tested, and success! so far, so good! Hopefully, come June 1, this will remain supported by gmail, and not be under the umbrella of what they plan to discontinue as third-party apps that sign in to a goggle account using only username and password. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertA Posted May 3, 2022 Author Share Posted May 3, 2022 My interpretation of Google's statement "If an app or site doesn’t meet our security standards, Google might block anyone who’s trying to sign in to your account from it" implies that as of June 1, an app's access needs to be manageable from Google's security page/tab that manages third party access, where one may determine and manage an app's access to your Google Account data. So, I am under the impression that by using the account username and password (which gives "all in" access), even when using a generated unique app password, isn't going to meet these security standards, since we can not determine or revoke this app's access from Google's "app with access" management page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyknight Posted May 4, 2022 Share Posted May 4, 2022 It's a fair question, but I'm not sure it will even be affected. You aren't actually 'signing into' the google account with the email notification - you're just signing into the SMTP server to send an email. Similar to using Outlook to send/receive gmail. If no update to outlook is needed, I would expect it likely this setup won't need anything either. South Africa C4 user and Gary Leeds UK 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertA Posted October 20, 2023 Author Share Posted October 20, 2023 Once again, my door station has stopped sending a snapshot email. I am still configured to send via smtp.gmail.com and I generated a new app password (https://myaccount.google.com/apppasswords) and replaced the door station's SMTP Server Password field with the new app password, in case the password from last year had expired. Is the capability to send a snapshot email from the door station still supported? I have experimented with updating all fields but so far I have no success. From the door station's browser page and the Email Sending Diagnostics window, all I get as a clue is this output: Email created. Snapshot attached. Sending started. Test email FAILURE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyknight Posted October 21, 2023 Share Posted October 21, 2023 Technically, yes sending snapshot from the DS is still supported: gmail however doesn't really support these types of setups anymore: you may have to look at an alternate email provider (ie use your ISP email possibly, or yahoo, something - I haven't tried any of them so can't be sure what would and wouldn't work) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertA Posted October 21, 2023 Author Share Posted October 21, 2023 Thank you Cyknight for your help! Can the door station support SMTP SSL port 465? or would a software update or a newer driver support SSL? My door station HW version is 220v3 and the software version is 2.25.0.34.7. I don't know how to determine what my driver version is. I have only composer home, not pro. I tried several email services, including ATT ISP's email, and they seem to support only SSL port 465. My driver documentation provides only info to setup using port 587. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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