Cant get Postie to Work. Get Error message that I can’t connect to mail server

Wayne: I checked with my hoster, ipage and I am at 256m, the maximum memory as you can see when I run testconfig:

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postiePostie Settings (v1.8.39)
Postie Configuration Test
OS: Linux boscustpro0402.eigbox.net 3.14.77 #1 SMP Thu Oct 20 18:26:58 EDT 2016 x86_64
PHP Version: 5.5.22
PHP error_log:
PHP log_errors: On
PHP get_temp_dir: /tmp/
PHP cURL version: 7.22.0
WordPress Version: 4.7.4
WordPress Singlesite
WP_TEMP_DIR: (none)
WP_HOME: (none)
home_url(): https://www.thesenioradventurer.com
WP_SITEURL: (none)
site_url(): https://www.thesenioradventurer.com
WP_DEBUG: Off
WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY: On
WP_DEBUG_LOG: Off
WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT: 256M (default)
WP_MEMORY_LIMIT: 40M
DISABLE_WP_CRON: Off
ALTERNATE_WP_CRON: Off
WP_CRON_LOCK_TIMEOUT: 60
Active plugins
Postie is in /hermes/bosnaweb20a/b1343/ipg.thesenioradventurer/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/postie/
Postie Version: 1.8.39
POSTIE_DEBUG: Off
Clock

This shows what time it would be if you posted right now

Wordpress timezone: (0)
Current time: 2017-04-24 08:43:20
Current time (gmt): 2017-04-24 08:43:20
Postie time correction: 0
Post time: 2017-04-24 08:43:20
Encoding

default_charset: WARNING not default_charset set see https://php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.default-charset
DB_CHARSET: utf8
DB_COLLATE: database default
WordPress encoding: UTF-8
Postie encoding: UTF-8
Images

Connect to Mail Host

Postie connection: sockets
Postie protocol: imap-ssl
Postie server: imap.gmail.com
Postie port: 993
Successful IMAP-SSL connection on port 993
# of waiting messages: 4

Max memory can be configured higher than 256, that is just the default. It may be the case that your hosting plan only allows 256 in which case you may be out of luck.

What happens when you click “Debug”?

Wayne: thanks. I talked to my hosting provider, Ipage, and they increased the pho and upped the max on an email post to 64mb and that did the thrice.

Excellent

I have message from Google for that plugin:

Hi xxxxxx,
Google just blocked someone from signing into your Google Account [email protected] from an app that may put your account at risk.
Less secure app
Monday, August 14, 2017 5:24 AM (United Kingdom Time)
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK*
Don’t recognize this activity?
If you didn’t recently receive an error while trying to access a Google service, like Gmail, from a non-Google application, someone may have your password.

Are you the one who tried signing in?
Google will continue to block sign-in attempts from the app you’re using because it has known security problems or is out of date. You can continue to use this app by allowing access to less secure apps, but this may leave your account vulnerable.

…so set off your secure setting by clicking the button in that email

regards

@edoescad in the future please start your own support thread as your issue is likely different.

Please look at https://postieplugin.com/postie-gmail/ especially the section on “Less secure apps”