Step 1: Creating your Gmail App Password
- Navigate to myaccount.google.com/security
- Click into your Google icon in the top right
- Click Manage your Google Account to ensure you’re in the correct account, if you have multiple Google accounts logged in at once.
- Click “Security” from the menu on the left hand side
- Scroll down and click “App Passwords”
- NOTE: if there is no “App Passwords” this means your two-step verification is off in Google. You will need to turn it on to enable it, and cannot use the “Allow Less Secure Apps” option.
- Choose the correct email from the dropdown
- Type in the password
- Click “Next”
- Click “Other (Custom name)” and add a name. Type in something like SMTP integration.
- Click “Generate”
- Copy the highlighted text. (You will need to paste it as the password when you integrate your Gmail as the SMTP in the next step.)