Using the Google API settings to send emails from Fixity

[Kyle Breneman]

Has anyone successfully configured Fixity’s email settings to work with the Google API?

 

I’ve been trying very hard to get this set up, but it is not working for me.  It seems that Google disabled their Less Secure App Access feature back in May 2022, and when I try to set up an app password for Fixity to use to access Google, that doesn’t seem to work either.

 

Kyle Breneman

Integrated Digital Services Librarian

The University of Baltimore

kbre...@ubalt.edu

I believe in freedom of thought and

freedom of speech. Do you?

 

[Marina de Souza]

Hi Kyle,

I just joined this group and I am having the same exact issue as you. I see that this message was posted last year, but were you able to find a way to solve this?

Thank you in advance,

Marina de Souza

Project Archivist

PMRC - United Church of Canada Archives

[Kyle Breneman]

Dear Marina,

 

Thanks for writing!  Ugh; I’m sorry you are experiencing frustration over the same problem.  No, I never found a way to solve this.  I checked in with AVP and they could not give me a solution.  I think that their suggested pathway is something which Google decided to disable a few years ago, but at the moment, my memory is not serving me to recall all those details.  Our university IT department was unwilling to create an email account without MFA that I could have used for this, so I simply gave up. 

 

Regards,

 

Kyle Breneman

Integrated Digital Services Librarian

The University of Baltimore

kbre...@ubalt.edu

I believe in freedom of thought and

freedom of speech. Do you?

 

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Subject: [fixity-users] Re: Using the Google API settings to send emails from Fixity

 

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[Fixity Pro]

Hello Marina and Kyle,

Unfortunately Google and Microsoft have both set a number of restrictions with how 3rd parties can integrate with their SMTP to send messages with other software. When they first created these restrictions, we weren't able to find any reasonable work-arounds unfortunately, but we'll look into whether any possible solutions have surfaced since then and let you know next week if we see any options.

Thank you,

The Fixity Pro Team