Problem with SMTP to use Google WorkSpace

@boomerangz please follow the instructions at:
https://www.wpase.com/documentation/gmail-google-workplace-email-smtp-host-delivery/

That documentation is correct, but not for this case.

Google Workspace allows you to use the account without 2FA, and has the option to use the smtp relay without credentials (neither username nor password), and I always use it in business accounts where I have already linked the MX dedicated IPs with their DNSs for each client.

I understand that ASE should have the option to do an SMTP relay when the “smtp-relay.gmail.com” is entered, since it will only work if it is linked to the correct IP on the user’s side.

Otherwise ASE forces me to create a 2FA authentication factor, which complicates the existence of the same clients.

Greetings.

@boomerangz it’s not a scenario that’s been tested and implemented in ASE. I suggest using FluentSMTP for your current requirement.

Feel free to share how you’re setting it up on FluentSMTP (screenshots perhaps?) for future reference.

Hi,

Yes, for the moment I will use Fluent. But I would like you to solve that issue in ASE, it would be useful for me and for many users who need that specific SMTP configuration for Google Workspace without 2FA.a

Also, I have bought the lifetime license of “ASE” 1 year ago, and I prefer to use the options of this add-on before installing something repetitive, it is the idea that ASE promotes…

Some screenshots:
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Regards.

Thanks for sharing the screenshots. They are useful when and if this issue is revisited in the future.

FYI, so far, you’re the first ASE user reporting this issue, i.e. using this specific configuration with ASE.

Ok, it’s strange, since it’s a workspace option to make forwarding more comfortable or easier (although surely less secure, depending on how you look at it)

Saludos.

@boomerangz can you try modifying the following line in ASE Free / Pro?… it’s inside the /classes/class-email-delivery.php file. Line 57 in ASE Free and line 84 in ASE Pro:

$phpmailer->SMTPAuth = true;

into

$phpmailer->SMTPAuth = false;

and check whether that allows you to deliver email using workspace’s relay configuration.

• This reply was modified 1 week, 2 days ago by Bowo.

Thanks for taking care of it.

I made the change in ASE Pro.
ASE now allows sending. But they don’t reach their destination.

It’s probably because it doesn’t allow saving the screen without a password (it can’t be blank), deleting this field should probably work.

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• This reply was modified 1 week, 1 day ago by BooMeranGz.

@boomerangz if so, try deleting or commenting out the following lines, which is several lines below the $phpmailer->SMTPAuth = false; line:

$phpmailer->Username = trim( $smtp_username );
$phpmailer->Password = trim( $smtp_password );

Then try sending a test email again.

Additionally, above the $phpmailer->SMTPAuth = false; line, try changing this line

if ( ! empty( $smtp_host ) && ! empty( $smtp_port ) && ! empty( $smtp_security ) && ! empty( $smtp_username ) && ! empty( $smtp_password ) ) {

into:

if ( ! empty( $smtp_host ) && ! empty( $smtp_port ) && ! empty( $smtp_security ) ) {

and try sending a test email.

Perfect!, I have modified those fragments and it works very well, even sending to Gmail, Hotmail/Outlook/Live and Yahoo.

Then you will only have to add an option (chekbox) to cancel the authentication in cases where it is required?

Do you want me to attach the modified code in some way?

@boomerangz that’s great! I should be able to provide an additional option whether to use authentication or not, and it should work for your situation. Let me add this on a to-do list. Hopefully can implement in the near future, ideally the release after the next one.

Thank you very much @qriouslad

I will be waiting for the next updates.

Saludos.