535-5.7.8 Username and Password not accepted

Question

I have a contact form and after submitting I am getting a Net::SMTPAuthenticationError 535-5.7.8 Username and Password not accepted

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Answer 1

I had the same problem. Now its working fine after doing below changes.

https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps

You should change the "Access for less secure apps" to Enabled (it was enabled, I changed to disabled and than back to enabled). After a while I could send email.