Yeastar S-Series IPPBX supports external SMTP server and POP server to send and receive Email. Gmail is a worldwide famous Email Exchange service provider and can be used with Yeastar IPPBX for email-related features. With Gmail, we can easily use the features below in Yeastar PBX.
- Voicemail to Email
- SMS to Email/ Email to SMS
- Fax to Email
- Retrieve the Admin password
While you might encounter the failure during the test and normal operation with Gmail account. This guide mainly shares the common procedures to debug Gmail setup in Yeastar S-Series IPPBX.
In this guide, you would need to login to the SSH for command running. Refer to the guide How to log in SSH of Yeastar S-Series IPPBX.
Step 1. Make sure PBX can access the Internet
Try to PING or DNS resolve the Gmail SMTP server. 
If failed, please check the network connection of the PBX.
Step 2. Check the SMTP/POP settings
Refer to guide SMTP Settings for Gmail
SMTP Server address: smtp.gmail.com (TLS Port 587)
POP3 Server address: pop.gmail.com (TLS port 995)
Step 3. Enable the Option "Allow less secure apps: On"
Refer to the explain from Gmail Allowing less secure apps to access your account
Input this link https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps to your browser and enable the option.
Step 4. Enable POP and IMAP
Input link https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#settings/fwdandpop in the browser to reach Gmail setting page and enable the POP Download and IMAP Access
Step 5. Run ssmtp debug and some typical errors.
Under the SSH, run the command
ssmtp -D /ysdisk/etc/mailbox/sysmail -vt </ysdisk/support/tmp/testsysmailbox.eml
to see the debug details.
Here are several typical errors as below.
- ssmtp: Cannot open smtp.gmail.com:587
This may be caused by the router/firewall security policies has enabled the restriction to SMTP port 587.
- Error: send-mail: Authorization failed 534 5.7.14
This problem may be caused by the Gmail account has been locked out due to many 3rd party less secure apps tried to log in this mail account, use this link https://accounts.google.com/DisplayUnlockCaptcha and click CONTINUE to unlock this account.
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