I’m 100% sure there is some sort of firewall miscofiguration.
You have either mod_security, or something else similar activated, that breaks incoming URLs to a server that have &anything=https:// (any URL in a GET param).
To fix that you need to contact your hosting support and say them to disable this security rule. Without this you won’t be able to auth with Google using its API.
More details here: https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/google-verification-403-error/
As Usual Godaddy was zero help, Trying to Connect using other SMTP and I get the following error, Any Help you could provide would be great. Thank You in Advance
Versions:
WordPress: 4.9.2
WordPress MS: No
PHP: 7.1.11
WP Mail SMTP: 1.2.4
Params:
Mailer: smtp
Constants: No
ErrorInfo: SMTP connect() failed. https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/wiki/Troubleshooting
Host: smtp.gmail.com
Port: 465
SMTPSecure: ssl
SMTPAutoTLS: bool(true)
SMTPAuth: bool(true)
Server:
OpenSSL: Yes
SMTP Debug:
2018-01-31 17:38:23 Connection: opening to ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465, timeout=300, options=array (
)
2018-01-31 17:38:23 Connection: Failed to connect to server. Error number 2. "Error notice: stream_socket_client(): Peer certificate CN=<code>*.prod.phx3.secureserver.net' did not match expected CN=</code>smtp.gmail.com'
2018-01-31 17:38:23 Connection: Failed to connect to server. Error number 2. "Error notice: stream_socket_client(): Failed to enable crypto
2018-01-31 17:38:23 Connection: Failed to connect to server. Error number 2. "Error notice: stream_socket_client(): unable to connect to ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465 (Unknown error)
2018-01-31 17:38:23 SMTP ERROR: Failed to connect to server: (0)
2018-01-31 17:38:23 SMTP connect() failed. https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/wiki/Troubleshooting
