I had a problem with K9 not authenticating to fetch or send email. I logged into google mail from my laptop Then I change the Allow less secure apps setting to ON.
Once you have logged into gmail from a laptop Goto Settings Accounts & Imports Under Change Account Settings: choose Other Google Account Settings Sign-In & Security Apps with account access Turn Allow less secure apps: ON On Sunday, September 21, 2014 at 10:00:53 AM UTC-5, 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!! > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "K-9 Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
