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Hello,
I’m having a problem using my Yahoo mail SMTP. Keep getting “Could not authenticate your SMTP account”.
All the yahoo setting is correct. No 2 step verification. Any info would be appreciated.
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Versions:
WordPress: 5.4
WordPress MS: No
PHP: 7.2.24-0ubuntu0.18.04.4
WP Mail SMTP: 2.0.0
Params:
Mailer: smtp
Constants: No
ErrorInfo: SMTP Error: Could not authenticate.
Host: smtp.mail.yahoo.com
Port: 465
SMTPSecure: ssl
SMTPAutoTLS: bool(true)
SMTPAuth: bool(true)
Server:
OpenSSL: OpenSSL 1.1.1 11 Sep 2018
SMTP Debug:
2020-04-28 13:40:18 Connection: opening to ssl://smtp.mail.yahoo.com:465, timeout=300, options=array ()
2020-04-28 13:40:18 Connection: opened
2020-04-28 13:40:18 SERVER -> CLIENT: 220 smtp.mail.yahoo.com ESMTP ready
2020-04-28 13:40:18 CLIENT -> SERVER: EHLO xn--cebemb0ck.xn--9dbq2a
2020-04-28 13:40:18 SERVER -> CLIENT: 250-smtp418.mail.ir2.yahoo.com Hello xn--cebemb0ck.xn--9dbq2a [95.179.177.242])250-PIPELINING250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES250-8BITMIME250-SIZE 41697280250 AUTH PLAIN LOGIN XOAUTH2 OAUTHBEARER
2020-04-28 13:40:18 CLIENT -> SERVER: AUTH LOGIN
2020-04-28 13:40:18 SERVER -> CLIENT: 334 VXNlcm5hbWU6
2020-04-28 13:40:18 CLIENT -> SERVER: bWFzdGVybm9kZXNAeWFob28uY29t
2020-04-28 13:40:18 SERVER -> CLIENT: 334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6
2020-04-28 13:40:18 CLIENT -> SERVER: azhEeThoQnE=
2020-04-28 13:40:18 SERVER -> CLIENT: 535 5.7.0 (#AUTH005) Too many bad auth attempts.
2020-04-28 13:40:18 SMTP ERROR: Password command failed: 535 5.7.0 (#AUTH005) Too many bad auth attempts.
SMTP Error: Could not authenticate.
2020-04-28 13:40:18 CLIENT -> SERVER: QUIT
2020-04-28 13:40:18 SERVER -> CLIENT:
2020-04-28 13:40:18 SMTP ERROR: QUIT command failed:
2020-04-28 13:40:18 Connection: closed
SMTP Error: Could not authenticate.