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Hi everybody,



would like to share this short guide to help other users out using gmail as official server to send email.
it works in both cases with @gmail.com domain and google managed one @MY13_2_domain.tld



CONFIGURATION



Server and Port: smtp.gmail.com : 587

Encryption: TLSv1.2

Connection timeout: 30 sec

Sender Display name: JAMF Software Server

Sender email address: ______@XXXX //your domain, gmail o gmail-managed

Username: _______@XXXX //your domain, gmail o gmail-managed


check AUTHENTICATED CONNECTION.
use same email and password we used for the SMTP account.



IMPORTANT NOTE:
Less secure app option should be turned at ACCOUNT LEVEL, not at organization one. as a console admnistrator I wasted hours debugging this issue and realized just now that the option must be on at account level, not at organization one.



Less secure apps & your Google Account



hope this will help!



brgds.
Arkage.

I ran into this recently as well. Thanks for the write up.



One thing to note is that Google allows 2000 messages a day using this method. Depending on how many notifications you have and how big your organization is it could hit that. Google SMTP Settings

until gmail disables that "feature"
I prefer to use the smtp-relay.gmail.com service for stuff like this, as it has a 10,000/day limit but can't get a lock on all the possible outbound IPs jamfcloud uses.

Thank you @Arkage! This worked perfectly.

Thanks Arkage. Once I enabled less secure option on my gmail account, the test email works!

Thanks @Arkage , this helped me set it up quick.

This is still not allowing to send. Thank you and i will update on our solution.

You can (and should) do this without enabling less secure apps. Create an app-specific password for the user and use that instead: https://myaccount.google.com/apppasswords



Accounts that have 2FA turned on are not allowed to enable less secure apps anyway.

Thanks a million, Arkage, you saved my day!

I configured my smtp server as suggested in this post but it fails the test each time. Any tips on troubleshooting?

@Morningside



Try the following settings



Port: 465
Encryption Type: SSL
Connection Timeout: 5 Seconds



Requires Authentication is checked.



You are using an actual account username and password, are you able to sign in to the account itself (not using Jamf)?

Just a heads up, this option has been depreciated and you're no longer able to enable the less secure option.

So without being able to enable less secure apps is there no way to have Gmail as an SMTP server in Jamf?

This was what got it working for us:

https://hcsonline.com/images/PDFs/Jamf_Google_App_Password.pdf 

We followed the HCSOnline guide without issue. Just noticed it broke last week. No changes to the service account being used. Going to try deleting and re-creating the app password to see if that resolves it. Curious if anyone can speculate why this may have happened.

This was what got it working for us:

https://hcsonline.com/images/PDFs/Jamf_Google_App_Password.pdf 


Thank you! This was also my fix I did skip the first half with setting up LSA. 

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