Re: Does anyone know how to solve "Too many login attempts" with smtp.gmail.com?

Thank you Oleg,
Unfurtunatly I wasn't using that account as a smarthost (I have dedicated
account to be used for smarthost). The blocked account is a free account.

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 5:18 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt <[email protected]> wrote:

> Boris shtrasman <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > As of last night, I'm no longer able to use smtp.gmail.com.
>
> I suspect that if you use gmail as your smarthost they impose a limit on
> the number of mails you can *send*. I don't remember the details, e.g.,
> whether it is 100/day or something like that, but I remember running
> into the limitation in the past. Nor do I remember if it manifested
> itself as a login limit, but I suppose it might since you authenticate
> when sending mails.
>
> If you have some cron job or monitoring system or something else that
> sends mails and that could have exceeded their limit (check logs?), I'd
> suggest you look up their documentation and/or contact their support.
> They'll unlock the account and will also tell you how to avoid the
> problem in the future. I don't recall what the solution was since I was
> not the one handling the issue. That was in a commercial setting,
> anyway.
>
> --
> Oleg Goldshmidt | [email protected]
>

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