can not get postie configured, need help

Unfortunately, cURL seems to be broken for many combinations of PHP & OS.

What happens if you try to use sockets?

Hi Wayne

I could only get successful connection by curl,
when I use sockets I get this
Connect to Mail Host

Postie connection: sockets
Postie protocol: imap-ssl
Postie server: imap.gmail.com
Postie port: 993
Unable to connect. The server said: The username and password provided were not accepted for the IMAP server imap.gmail.com on port 993

I can check my gmail with my email address and password no problem, which when its set to curl it connects and shows waiting messages

Sockets is working, gmail is just sending back a error message.

Please review https://postieplugin.com/postie-gmail/ and specifically the section on “less secure apps”

Hi Wayne

Tried all sorts of things from that page and still nothing works

Allow less secure apps: OFF

Tried gmail imap and pop and also tried email from my own host email account
Nothing works

Connect to Mail Host

Postie connection: sockets
Postie protocol: imap
Postie server: imap.gmail.com
Postie port: 993
Unable to connect. The server said: The username and password provided were not accepted for the IMAP server imap.gmail.com on port 993

Sent another support log file

AL

From personal experience it is sometime difficult to ensure the correct gmail account is being referenced when turning off the less secure apps.

Just to be sure start private browsing/incognito before navigating to the settings page so you are forced to log into the correct account.

I’m seeing this warning in the logs now

[php] 2, stream_select(): You MUST recompile PHP with a larger value of FD_SETSIZE.
It is set to 1024, but you have descriptors numbered at least as high as 3257.
 --enable-fd-setsize=4096 is recommended, but you may want to set it
to equal the maximum number of open files supported by your system,
in order to avoid seeing this error again at a later date., /home/wildpacific/public_html/wp-content/plugins/postie/lib/pSocketConnection.php, 191

You should talk to your hosting company about this. Postie is only opening 1 file so it appears that whatever version of PHP they have installed isn’t configured very well for a large number of accounts.

Okay my head is spinning and my hair is falling out now…. been trying to get this working since april 9th

I went to this page you sent me (Please review https://postieplugin.com/postie-gmail/ and specifically the section on “less secure apps”) and I checked it out and to check Less secure apps,
Is this not the right settings – Allow less secure apps: OFF
I was logged into correct account
I tried all sorts of things on that page and still get the same error
Connect to Mail Host

Postie connection: sockets
Postie protocol: imap
Postie server: imap.gmail.com
Postie port: 993
Unable to connect. The server said: The username and password provided were not accepted for the IMAP server imap.gmail.com on port 993

Sorry to be such a pain,

Is this not the right settings – Allow less secure apps: OFF

No. The setting should be ON.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 10 months ago by Wayne Allen.

Sorry Wayne, gave up on postie,,,, went to jetpack and had it setup in a short time
Maybe will try again later

No problem. I love troubleshooting so someone elses product works first time ??

Seriously though you should use what works for you. I totally understand.