[ruby-on-rails] 535-5.7.8 Username and Password not accepted

I have a contact form and after submitting I am getting a Net::SMTPAuthenticationError 535-5.7.8 Username and Password not accepted

It's pointing to the create action in the contacts controller ContactMailer.new_contact(@contact).deliver

I have restarted the server. I tried https://accounts.google.com/DisplayUnlockCaptcha.

I am in development.

Contacts controller:

 def new
      @contact = Contact.new
    end

    def create
      @contact = Contact.new(params[:message])
      if @contact.valid?
        ContactMailer.new_contact(@contact).deliver
        flash[:notice] = "Message sent! Thank you for contacting us."
        redirect_to root_url
      else
        render :action => 'new'
      end
    end
  end

Development.rb:

  config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = true
  config.action_mailer.perform_deliveries = true
  config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
  config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
    address:              'smtp.gmail.com',
    port:                 587,
    domain:               'gmail.com',
    user_name:            '[email protected]',
    password:             'password',
    authentication:       'plain',
    enable_starttls_auto: true  }

  config.action_mailer.default_url_options = { :host => "localhost:3000" }

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The answer is


If you still cannot solve the problem after you turn on the less secure apps. The other possible reason which might cause this error is you are not using gmail account.

-    : user_name  =>  '[email protected]' ,  # It can not be used since it is not a gmail address 
+    : user_name  =>  '[email protected]' ,  # since it's a gmail address

Refer to here.

Also, bear in mind that it might take some times to enable the less secure apps. I have to do it several times (before it works, every time I access the link it will shows that it is off) and wait for a while until it really work.


Time flies, the way I do without enabling less secured app is making a password for specific app

Step one: enable 2FA

Step two: create an app-specific password

After this, put the sixteen digits password to the settings and reload the app, enjoy!

  config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
    ...
    password: 'HERE', # <---
    authentication: 'plain',
    enable_starttls_auto: true
  }

Goto config/initializers/setup_mail.rb Check whether the configuration there matches the configuration written in the development.rb file.It should look like the following in both files:

config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
     :address =>"[email protected]",
     :port => 587,
     :domain => "gmail.com",
     :user_name => "[email protected]",
     :password => "********",
     :authentication => 'plain',
     :enable_starttls_auto => true,
     :openssl_verify_mode => 'none' 
     } 

This will most certainly solve your problem.


UPDATE:

Notice: This setting is not available for accounts with 2-Step Verification enabled, which mean you have to disable 2 factor authentication.

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If you disable the 2-Step Verification:

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I had the same problem. Now its working fine after doing below changes.

https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps

You should change the "Access for less secure apps" to Enabled (it was enabled, I changed to disabled and than back to enabled). After a while I could send email.


In my case removing 2 factor authentication solves my problem.


I did everything from visiting http://www.google.com/accounts/DisplayUnlockCaptcha to setting up 2-fa and creating an application password. The only thing that worked was logging into http://mail.google.com and sending an email from the server itself.