Sending emails with Gmail SMTP servers

Gmail’s SMTP servers support two ways of authenticating.

1. The classical user/password authentication

2. The OAuth2 authentication https://developers.google.com/gmail/oauth_overview#protocol

Currently, Semarchy xDI’s SMTP metadata supports the classical user/password authentication.

By default, a Google account allows only Google apps to connect to their services with username/password.

In order to use third party Email clients with username/password, the Google account owner has to enable the "Allow less secure apps" setting.

xDI is - in a way - a third party Email client, so this requirement applies.

In order to enable this setting, please follow Google’s instructions.

The "Outgoing server (SMTP)" node should be configured like this:

Simply drag and drop the SMTP metadata on the SendMail action. The hostname, port, user, password, and SSL mode will be automatically inherited from the metadata.

Set the required MAIL_FROM and MAIL_TO parameters, and the action should work fine.