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- How to configure Email Notifications when using Gmail or Google Apps Mail
How to configure Email Notifications when using Gmail or Google Apps Mail
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Per Google Account Help: Less secure apps & your Google Account
"To help keep your account secure, starting May 30, 2022, Google will no longer support the use of third-party apps or devices which ask you to sign in to your Google Account using only your username and password."
- Google-Workspace users are advised to review options documented in:
Google Workspace Admin Help: Send email from a printer, scanner, or app
Specifically, the SMTP Relay option. - Non-Google Workspace accounts (i.e., non-Business Gmail accounts) will need to transition to using App Passwords to configure notifications from Veeam products. Note: "App Passwords can only be used with accounts that have 2-Step Verification turned on."
Solution
Per Gmail documentation, Port 587 should be used for SMTP using TLS.
Below are links to documentation for Email Notification configuration, and addtional configuration advice.
- Veeam Backup and Replication
- Enable Connect using SSL
- Enable This SMTP server requires authentication and select the necessary credentials from the Log on as list.
- Veeam Backup Enteprise Manager
- Enable Use SSL
- Enable Requires authentication and specify authentication credentials
- Veeam ONE
- Enable Use secure connection
- Enable Use authentication and specify authentication credentials
- Veeam Service Provider Console
- Enable Use secure connection
- Enable Requires authentication and specify authentication credentials
- Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator
- Enable Use secure connection
- Enable Requires authentication and specify authentication credentials
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