Title: Problem with mail authentication
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Problem with mail authentication

 *  Resolved [kafirit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafirit/)
 * (@kafirit)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-mail-authentication/)
 * I have problems to configure the mail server section. My provider requires authentication
   for pop3 or imap. I did not find this setting in the plugin. In any case I tried
   with Gmail, but seems not to work. any suggestions?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/postie/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/postie/)

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 *  Thread Starter [kafirit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafirit/)
 * (@kafirit)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-mail-authentication/#post-6580430)
 * Checking for mail manually with debug output
    Starting mail fetch Postie Version:
   1.7.11 Wordpress Version: 4.3.1 PHP Version: 5.6.12 OS: Linux xx.siteground.biz
   2.6.32.59-sg3 #9 SMP Wed Sep 26 03:29:25 CDT 2012 x86_64 Debug mode: On Time:
   2015-09-24 11:17:20 GMT Error log: php_errorlog TMP dir: /tmp/ Postie is in /
   xx/wp-content/plugins/postie/ Cron: On Alternate Cron: Off wp_content_path: /
   xx/wp-content MAKE SURE POP IS TURNED ON IN SETTING AT Gmail Connecting to pop.
   gmail.com:995 (pop3-ssl) pop3: using Google INBOX pop3: connection string – {
   pop.gmail.com:995/service=pop3/ssl/notls/novalidate-cert}INBOX pop3: disabling
   GSSAPI Mail Connection Time Out Common Reasons: Server Down, Network Issue, Port/
   Protocol MisMatch Array ( [0] => Can not authenticate to POP3 server: [AUTH] 
   Web login required: [https://support.google.com/mail/answer/78754](https://support.google.com/mail/answer/78754))
 * The Server said:
    pop3: expunge pop3: closing connection There are 0 messages
   to process memory at start of email processing:91367576 Array ( [add_meta] =>
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   => 0 [default_post_category] => 1 [category_match] => 1 [default_post_tags] =
   > Array ( )
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    [delete_mail_after_processing] => 1 [
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   => silver [icon_size] => 32 [auto_gallery] => 0 [image_new_window] => [image_placeholder]
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    [interval] => hourly [mail_server] => pop.gmail.
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    [selected_imagetemplate] => wordpress_default[
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 *  [video2template] => [{FILENAME}](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-mail-authentication/{FILELINK}?output_format=md)
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 * Mail fetch complete, 0 emails
    memory at end of email processing:91367624
 *  Plugin Author [Wayne Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wayneallen-1/)
 * (@wayneallen-1)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-mail-authentication/#post-6580495)
 * The error message has a link to [https://support.google.com/mail/answer/78754](https://support.google.com/mail/answer/78754)
 * Did you follow the troubleshooting steps?
 * >My provider requires authentication for pop3 or imap. I did not find this setting
   in the plugin.
 * The username and password are the authentication, there isn’t a separate setting.

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