Going to https://accounts.google.com/DisplayUnlockCaptcha <br>and then retrying the operation, worked a treat! <br> <br>Thank You Pablo.

Going to https://accounts.google.com/DisplayUnlockCaptcha <br>and then retrying the operation, worked a treat! <br> <br>Thank You Pablo.

Going to https://accounts.google.com/DisplayUnlockCaptcha <br>and then retrying the operation, worked a treat! <br> <br>Thank You Pablo.

It is because Google blocks sign-in attempts from apps which do not use modern security standards (mentioned on their support page). You can however, turn on/off this safety feature by going to the link below:

Go to this link and select Turn On

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

Moreover google block an ip when you try to send a email since a unusual location, so, you can unblock in the next link

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6009563

and clicked in

accounts.google.com/DisplayUnlockCaptcha

More info…smtp mail

I was having a similar problem and i solve it changing the order of the settings. <br>It worked exactly like this <br> <br>EMAIL_USE_TLS = True <br>EMAIL_HOST = ‘smtp.gmail.com’ <br>EMAIL_HOST_USER = “xxxx@gmail.com” <br>EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = “xxxxxxxx” <br>EMAIL_PORT = 587 <br> <br>You can try it easy with the django shell: <br> <br>>>> from django.core.mail import send_mail <br>>>> send_mail(‘test email’, ‘hello world’, ‘xxxx@gmail.com’, [‘xxx@yyyy.com’]) <br> <br>hope it helps

Make sure the password is correct. If it is, check out the last 2 answers in <a href=“http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18124878/netsmtpauthenticationerror-when-sending-email-from-rails-app-on-staging-envir”>Net::SMTPAuthenticationError when sending email from Rails app (on staging environment) | Stack Overflow</a> or this GitHub issue: <a href=“https://github.com/Coursemology/coursemology.org/issues/15”>Error: Net::SMTPAuthenticationError in RegistrationsController#create when signing up</a>.

No firewall, currently; just a minimal install to try things out. <br> <br>Internal Server Error: /contact/ <br>Traceback (most recent call last): <br> File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py”, line 114, in get_response <br> response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs) <br> File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/views/generic/base.py”, line 69, in view <br> return self.dispatch(request, *args, **kwargs) <br> File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/views/generic/base.py”, line 87, in dispatch <br> return handler(request, *args, **kwargs) <br> File “/opt/officeowlsproject/officeowls/source/contact/views.py”, line 39, in post <br> form.cleaned_data[‘message’]) <br> File “/opt/officeowlsproject/officeowls/source/contact/views.py”, line 49, in send_notification_mail <br> send_mail(subject, message, settings.EMAIL_HOST_USER, [settings.EMAIL_HOST_USER]) <br> File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/mail/init.py”, line 50, in send_mail <br> connection=connection).send() <br> File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/mail/message.py”, line 255, in send <br> return self.get_connection(fail_silently).send_messages([self]) <br> File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/mail/backends/smtp.py”, line 88, in send_messages <br> new_conn_created = self.open() <br> File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/mail/backends/smtp.py”, line 55, in open <br> self.connection.login(self.username, self.password) <br> File “/usr/lib/python2.7/smtplib.py”, line 613, in login <br> raise SMTPAuthenticationError(code, resp) <br>SMTPAuthenticationError: (534, ‘5.7.14 <https://accounts.google.com/ContinueSignIn?sarp=1&scc=1&plt=AKgnsbsqI\n5.7.14 C3OFcvHRPuxJl5KXY2WfGco2S4KGxD0b9bkAeTsStDqcjfaXNfQBUyAX1mYliPsclp_QwW\n5.7.14 B7j59cqV2GG_2lwVDsF0mHphSw-HDNyQlb-9-bBIOz7PN4m3izZ0yOygEEcNqZflbwPh30\n5.7.14 lu2tKiwq-jJADcCA-MWU-7S4aX3662QyE37pirFW0Fw2yrVmU8c1WBXgW4DhMDFaMzksnV\n5.7.14 f_dWQag> Please log in via your web browser and then try again.\n5.7.14 Learn more at https://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?answer=787\n5.7.14 54 c1sm9978624qad.1 - gsmtp’)

What do the error logs show? Do you have a firewall in place, by chance?