This is got irritating now I had an update today from k9 and the email stopped working and there is no setting for the PLAIN its gone. Think I will scrap K9 and look for something else. On Thursday, 25 September 2014 16:00:41 UTC+1, Nisa51 wrote: > > Hi Southern > My Google accounts via K9 are fine I have no problems with that at all. > But I have fixed the one I was having problems with which was an old > Tiscale email address. The setting was using Port 587 and then for > Authentication use PLAIN. It was set at Automatic before I just altered it > to PLAIn and it's working brilliantly. > > On Thursday, 25 September 2014 15:52:49 UTC+1, Southern Dude wrote: >> >> TWO POSSIBLE FIXES USING GOOGLE AUTHENTICATION SERVICES >> >> Hey, Nisa51, >> >> I just had the same outgoing server SMTP errors happen on my Samsung >> Galaxy S4 using K9 Mail (imap access) which I use solely for accessing >> e-mail from an alternative/secondary google account (my main google account >> synced to the phone uses the phone's native gmail app and functioned fully >> without errors). >> >> ERROR HISTORY/BACKGROUND >> K9 Mail had always worked fine on my Samsung Galaxy S4 running 4.4.2 >> until recenty when I noticed failure notices after attempting to create and >> send an e-mail (error "Cannot connect to server. Negative SMTP Reply 534 >> ..."). While any incoming mail continued to arrive as always, any attempts >> to compose/send new e-mail messages from my phone using K9 ended in a >> connection error and became stuck in the Outbox. Full disclosure, I mostly >> compose and send e-mails for this secondary google account using my laptop >> and the chrome browser; I hardly ever use K9 on the phone for anything but >> reading incoming mail, so I suspect the error may have been in place for a >> while. >> >> I have enabled 2-Step Verification for both my main and secondary google >> accounts which is where I should have started investigating rather than try >> every fix suggested across various forums (from changing port number to >> cycling through the four authentication types). After coming across a >> possible solution posted in repsonse to more generic gmail smtp failures, I >> went into my google account's security settings to double check whether I'd >> given K9 access (from google: settings > security > select "settings" to >> the right of 2-Step Verification line in the password section). Strangely, >> I saw that I'd already created an app-specific password for K9 Mail and >> that it had been used successfully a few minutes earlier (spoiler alert: it >> was for incoming server access only). >> >> Depending on whether you have 2-Step Verification enabled or not, here >> follows two possible fixes (the first one fixed my smtp failures >> immediately): >> >> >> *1.) ENABLED 2-Step Verification - Create Two Separate App-Specifc >> Passwords for BOTH the Incoming and the Outgoing Server* >> [see attached image 01] >> >> When I'd originally granted K9 access to google, I'd only bothered >> entering the app-specific password into the incoming server section. So, if >> you have 2-Step Verification enabled on your google account and are having >> trouble sending mail through imap with applications like K9 Mail, check to >> make sure you have granted K9 Mail access for both INCOMING and OUTGOING >> authentication with an app-specific password created for each function. >> Create the second password and replace your regular account password with >> the new one in the Outgoing Server Settings within the K9 Mail app (mine >> was composed of four sets of four numbers with a space between each set. I >> entered the spaces as characters for a total of 19 character spaces in the >> app-specific password). Almost instantly after creating the second >> app-specific password and entering it, my outgoing e-mail started to >> function as normal. So, the only change you'd need to make in K9 is the >> outgoing server password. >> >> *2.) INACTIVE 2-Step Verification (e.g. You Don't Use It) - Google >> DisplayUnlockCaptcha Service to Allow Individual App Acccess* >> >> [see attached image 02] >> >> If *you have not enabled 2-Step Verification*, here is a solution (with >> some rewording/clarification done by me) found posted on >> stackoverflow.com >> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17462380/server-send-emails-using-gmail-smtp-gets-alerts> >> >> which still identified the google authentication process as the culprit for >> outgoing mail SMTP errors: >> >> Apparently, google has to specifically grant/allow some applications >> access to your google account even if you've supplied the correct >> credentials (usually for a new application). K9 Mail and similar apps that >> access your google account may need to go through this secondary level of >> permissions. Even if you've been using the app succesfsfully for some time, >> it might be that the app was recently updated and it's being treated as >> "new," or you may have made some recent global changes to the phone itself >> (from OTA updates to rooting). In order to do grant the offending app >> access, google set up an authentication procedure. After logging in to >> google in a computer browser, navigate to >> https://accounts.google.com/DisplayUnlockCaptcha. Click *Continue* when >> you're ready and, within the next 10 minute time limit, try again to >> compose and send an e-mail within K9 Mail (delete and do not attempt to >> "re-send" any mail that are stuck in the outbox or which failed earlier - >> instead, create a completely new outgoing e-mail message). Over the next 10 >> minutes, google will be sniffing for any apps attempting to access your >> account that it doesn't recognize. As long as the account information used >> by K9 or other apps is accurate (e.g. your gmail address, password, et al) >> it should then grant it permission to access your google account as well as >> remember the new application/service (until the next time you change that >> google account's password). >> >> Hope one of these two solutions helps! >> >> ~Southern Dude >> >> On Sunday, September 21, 2014 11:00:53 AM UTC-4, Nisa51 wrote: >>> >>> I have a Galaxy S3 and have used K9 for 3 of my accounts and now 2 fail >>> completely to send I can receive with no problem but cannot send. I have >>> not altered any settings for the outgoing servers and have checked the >>> settings are they are fine. >>> >>> The other is a gmail account and that works fine sending and receiving. >>> >>> Incoming server >>> Pop3 and imap port 110 >>> >>> Outgoing server >>> smtp >>> Security None >>> Port 587 >>> Require Sign In >>> authentication - Automatic >>> >>> Now this does not work I get a message - Cannot connect to server. (No >>> valid authentication mechanism found) >>> >>> If I untick the Require Sign In box it works!! >>> >>> >>>
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