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We recommend only with limitations to use this method because of:
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Guide for Mail Server setup in GMail (free account)
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Configure an outgoing mail server
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Check your configuration for “Less secure apps”
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Check your “Captcha enable” configuration
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In case 2FA is used make sure to set a “Application specific” password
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Configuration of your Google Account
Login to Google Account and navigate to Security → Signing in to Google → App passwords
If you don’t have this option “App passwords”, it might be because you have not set up 2-Step Verification for this account:
Activate 2-Step Verification first before you continue in this tutorial.
If this is not helping, there are perhaps other reasons, see Googles Help ArticleIn the next step, choose “Mail” as app and “Other” as device:
Then give your app password e.g. the name "Page Beam App" and click generate.
Your App password is now displayed. Please keep it safe, as it will only be displayed once.
Configuring Page Beam App
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Go to your Confluence Cloud instance and navigate to the mail page configuration in the administration to configure the SMTP Server
Configuring GMail SMTP Server
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Page Beam admin page
Enter the following information in the “Mailserver Account” section and click “Save”.
Server hostname: smtp.gmail.com
Server port:
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Username:
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your-account@gmail.com
Password: Your App Password from above
If everything was set up correctly, the following positive status message should appear in the left corner:
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