Not being aboe to use smtp.gmail.com within Zabbix

[diet1975]

Hi,
I just started with Zabbix out of curiosity.
So far so good and it is pretty straid forward to work with.
Having said, I'm not able to get smtp.gmail.com to work for notification.

I have installed zabbix server 5.0.6 on a RaspberryPi
Gmail via SSMTP works as expected.
i.e.

echo "hello" | SSMTP [email protected]

does work

But when I configure Zabbix with gmail it i'm not able to connect. In the dialog box and /var/log/zabbix/zabbix_server.log I see the following error:
failed to send email: Couldn't connect to server: Failed to connect to gmail.com port 587: Connection timed out

via Administration -> media types -> email i have used the following settings:

Name: Email
Type: Email
SMTP server: [email protected]
SMTP server port: 587
SMTP helo: smtp.gmail.com
SMTP email: <mail>@gmail.com
Connection security:STARTTLS
Authentication: Username and password
Username: <mail>@gmail.com
Password: <pwd>
Message format: HTML/Plain text
Description: Test ABC

Besides these settings I also changed my google settings 'access les secure apps'
What am I doing wrong?

Thank you for your time and possible answers

Regs, Diet

[marianogedisman]

+1. I'm having the same issue.

[pavels.marhels]

Starting from 30.may. Google is not supporting smtp auth anymore.


Zabbix alerts are not working starting from 6 june. Error in zabbix log is like that:
648:20220609:115231.083 failed to send email: Login denied

In frontend is like that:


SMTP session underneath looks like:

[pavels.marhels]

Enable 'Less secure apps' within GMAIL is not a option anymore. (strating from 1 june).

[alientm]

is there any other solution to keep sending notifications via gmail?

[Ferke85]

Yes, there is a solution.
You have to enable 2 factor authentication and create an app password for gmail (16 char long generated password). Add this password in the zabbix gmail configuration and will work the mail alerts again.
I did these steps yesterday and it works fine.

[alientm]

Yes, there is a solution.
You have to enable 2 factor authentication and create an app password for gmail (16 char long generated password). Add this password in the zabbix gmail configuration and will work the mail alerts again.
I did these steps yesterday and it works fine.

Thank you for answer, I will try to check this solution.

[Ahmedosos]

Yes, there is a solution.
You have to enable 2 factor authentication and create an app password for gmail (16 char long generated password). Add this password in the zabbix gmail configuration and will work the mail alerts again.
I did these steps yesterday and it works fine.

thank you for your help , but can you Please show us the step

[Vikas Negi]

Hi There
See the below screenshot attached by myself from the google account where you can enable 2 factor and also generate a password for your app.
To create password choose email and give custom app name such as Zabbix (worked in my case)

[Vikas Negi]

Hi All

1. Setting you need to have for gmail to work with zabbix highlighted in yellow