I do get a warning it’s connected to a different server on ports 25, 485 and 587 – the servername of the VPS server itself.
This is what I think is happening, too…”Sounds like your Bluehost server is redirecting your connection from gmail to your localhost.”
The API does not have the warning, so that port is not being ‘redirected’ – BlueHost was no help in resolving it. Three support cases have all ‘blamed’ the plugin; I am convinced it is the server configuration.