kbear Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 My father in-law uses your app Express Invoice Plus.. Recently I saw a warning from gmail that said the following below. Quote 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. Is there a fix for this? My Father in-law loves programs and still wants to use Express Invoice Plus. But still wants to send an invoice by email that he has created using Express Invoice Plus. We enjoy the program and want to continue to do so. https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255?hl=en&visit_id=637894423988334220-3984717996&p=less-secure-apps&rd=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCGCS Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 Does he use his laptop/pc/mac for this or is he doing it on tablet/phone (Android or IOS). If he doing it on a pc he could use thunderbird email program and express invoice will send the email though it to gmail. there is a option in the program for it to act as its own mail server to send emails as well. I do the above and have no problems and I know when I added my gmail address it did pop up another windows to do with signing in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbear Posted May 30, 2022 Author Share Posted May 30, 2022 Laptop. Small company only does his books once a week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCGCS Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 I would use Thunderbird and set Express Invoice to use MAPI (the first option) to send mail. You can also get Express Invoice to send mail for you by using the bottom option "Send directly to the other side (works as own SMTP) if the above fails" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jens Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 Having same issue nch doesn't seem to care. Don't even answer mail s. I can't use thunderbird for some reason and most mail servers won't accept the send directly from nch. I have to use gmail. Any one else got a fix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbear Posted June 9, 2022 Author Share Posted June 9, 2022 What I have done as a work around is to tell the invoice to print then when the print screen comes up do not select printer select save as pdf as a flie the email invoice as an attachment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCGCS Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 58 minutes ago, Jens said: Having same issue nch doesn't seem to care. Don't even answer mail s. I can't use thunderbird for some reason and most mail servers won't accept the send directly from nch. I have to use gmail. Any one else got a fix What problem are you having when you try and use Thunderbird. you could also try and use windows mail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mel4489 Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 I had the same issue and fixed it. I am still using gmail. You need to create an app specific password. Google will allow you to a device name. I named mine Invoice Express, it then generates a specific password for you to use when you setup smtp email settings. You will use the email address you have and the new password that google generated. Hope this helps everyone. Since Google has stopped support for using "less secure apps access", it is no longer possible to use the 'regular' account password to connect to Gmail.Moving forward, you will have to do these following steps:1. Turn on 2-step verification: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1858392. Create and use App Password: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJC1965 Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 Hi mel4489, I have followed your steps to setup 2-step verification and created a app password in my Gmail account which I have used in the Invoice Express email setup. Unfortunately I am still receiving the error message "Email authentication username or password not accepted (334)". Any ideas on what I can try to allow me to send invoices via my Gmail account? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred28 Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 Can you please contact NCH Tech Support and report this, make sure you tell them what you have already tried on your end. They might need to contact the developer of the program to review this and find a solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbear Posted June 28, 2022 Author Share Posted June 28, 2022 On 6/21/2022 at 7:29 PM, mel4489 said: I had the same issue and fixed it. I am still using gmail. You need to create an app specific password. Google will allow you to a device name. I named mine Invoice Express, it then generates a specific password for you to use when you setup smtp email settings. You will use the email address you have and the new password that google generated. Hope this helps everyone. Since Google has stopped support for using "less secure apps access", it is no longer possible to use the 'regular' account password to connect to Gmail.Moving forward, you will have to do these following steps:1. Turn on 2-step verification: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1858392. Create and use App Password: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833 I set this up and it works. Thank you for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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