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How to solve email sending problem with Postfix and Gmail

This post is obsoleted due to Google turning off less secure app access to G Suite accounts.
Turning off less secure app access to G Suite accounts

Use the following link to create Gmail password for email clients (e.g. Exim, Postfix).
Sign in using App Passwords


Many Koha users are using Gmail with the Postfix mail server to send email notifications. It's essential to enable less secure sign in to start to send notifications from Gmail. Otherwise, emails will not send.

Goto the following link and enable Less secure apps in Gmail account.

https://myaccount.google.com/security

This option at the bottom of the page.

Information courtesy: Dr. Mukesh Pund, NISCAIR, New Delhi

4 comments:

  1. UnknownMay 11, 2016 at 2:43 AM

    nice

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  2. SnehaAugust 2, 2016 at 1:40 AM

    Problems with dovecot are not easy to fix. See here for mark email threads

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  3. Bahalen kerkettaMay 2, 2017 at 1:00 AM

    I have accessed email notification service. But After changing IP address, Koha is not sending email to patron. Can you please help me?

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  4. koha hosting configurationMay 7, 2017 at 9:28 PM

    Sir koha gmail notification was my college library used the gmail notification book issues , return and renewal notification probably working, but advance notification, over due and book due remainder faction was not working any solution.

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