Putting password in wp-config doesn’t work

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Hi,

I hadn’t used the mail function for a while and while testing some new notification features on the site, I got an error saying mail() not activated.
I went to the plugin setting to try and send a test mail. Got an SMTP auth error. As in the credentials are wrong.

I tried the login on webmail with the same credentials ==> got into the inbox, so the credentials are correct.

So I tried a couple of things, when I took out the 2 defines from the wp-config, and added the password manually in the plugin setting, the test mail worked again, and so did the mail function I was testing initially.

Any idea why this wouldn’t work? for now its on our dev server, so not concerned with the security yet. But when we move to live, I do want to be as save as possible.