Email - SMTP not working with GMAIL setttings

**imfsub12** · 11 Jan 2013, 01:44 AM

First of all my mail was sending out fine with PHP..

But most of the time when I got the email from the store it went to my spam email box (Using GMAIL) - I read on a faq about the spam setting but forget where i read that.. too much to read and sometime you can't find what you are looking for again

But then when i made a fake purchase the user got the email (in my inbox it was)

So I read that you could use the setting to login to your account to send it and it would not put in the spam folder.

So I did this.

1. E-Mail Transport Method - smtpauth (I tried smtp as well)

Code:

E-Mail Transport Method 	smtpauth 	Info 
E-Mail Linefeeds 	CRLF 	Info 
Use MIME HTML When Sending Emails 	false 	Info 
Send E-Mails 	true 	Info 
Email Archiving Active? 	false 	Info 
E-Mail Friendly-Errors 	true 	Info 
Email Address (Displayed to Contact you) 	[email protected] 	Info 
Email Address (sent FROM) 	[email protected] 	Info 
Emails must send from known domain? 	Yes 	Info 
Email Admin Format? 	TEXT 	Info 
Send Copy of Order Confirmation Emails To 	[email protected] 	Info 
Send Copy of Create Account Emails To - Status 	0 	Info 
Send Copy of Create Account Emails To 	[email protected] 	Info 
Send Copy of Customer GV Send Emails To - Status 	0 	Info 
Send Copy of Customer GV Send Emails To 	[email protected] 	Info 
Send Copy of Admin GV Mail Emails To - Status 	0 	Info 
Send Copy of Customer Admin GV Mail Emails To 	[email protected] 	Info 
Send Copy of Admin Discount Coupon Mail Emails To - Status 	0 	Info 
Send Copy of Customer Admin Discount Coupon Mail Emails To 	[email protected] 	Info 
Send Copy of Admin Orders Status Emails To - Status 	0 	Info 
Send Copy of Admin Orders Status Emails To 	[email protected] 	Info 
Send Notice of Pending Reviews Emails To - Status 	0 	Info 
Send Notice of Pending Reviews Emails To 	[email protected] 	Info 
Set "Contact Us" Email Dropdown List 		Info 
Contact Us - Show Store Name and Address 	1 	Info 
Send Low Stock Emails 	0 	Info 
Send Low Stock Emails To 	[email protected] 	Info 
Display "Newsletter Unsubscribe" Link? 	true 	Info 
Audience-Select Count Display 	true 	Info 
SMTP Email Account Mailbox 	[email protected] 	Info 
SMTP Email Account Password 	********** 	Info 
SMTP Email Mail Host 	smtp.gmail.com 	 
SMTP Email Mail Server Port 	587 	Info  (I ALSO USE THE OTHER PORT 465)
Convert currencies for Text emails 		Info

But then if i say go turn off a shipping mod I get this error -
Getting this error

Code:

ERROR: Failed sending email to: "[email protected]" with subject: "ALERT: Your Admin settings have been changed in your online store." SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host.

Not sure what i'm doing wrong