Gmail won't send my emails

I get an SMTP error message each time I try to send a an email? How can i fix this?

Hi Bees_Knees,
The problem is somewhat vague, but I will give you a couple possible solutions for common problems I have found using Gmail.
1. Update your OS X to the latest version 10.10.1 (the most recent update contains specific mail fixes that should help you)
2. Try re-entering your password in Mail (when in Mail, click: Mail - Accounts - select Google in the left pane - click Details - re-enter your password)
3. Follow this link to make sure you have the correct account set up for Apple Mail
https://support.google.com/mail/troubleshooter/1668960?rd=1#ts=1665018,1665139
4. This link is Gmail's recommended configuration for your mailbox behaviour, for interest sake.

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I've done this contact form loads of times and it works fine but for some reason this particular form won't send to email. The php is good so it must be my form. I'll put both bits of code up anyway. Thanks
PHP:
<?php
if ($_POST){
if (!filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'email', FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)){
$message="Please provide a correct email address";} else {
$name = strip_tags($_POST['name']);
$company_name = strip_tags($_POST['company_name']);
$telephone = strip_tags($_POST['telephone']);
$email = $_POST['email'];
$comments = strip_tags($_POST['comments']);
$to = '[email protected]';
$subject = 'Contact form submitted.';
$body = $name. "\n". $company_name. "\n". $telephone. "\n". $email. "\n" .$comments;
$headers = 'From: ' .$email;
if (mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers)) {
echo 'Thanks for contacting us. We\'ll be in touch soon!';
} else {
$message = 'Sorry an error occurred. Please try again later.';
?>
<?php echo "<p style='color:red'>$message</p>"; ?>
HTML:
<form id="contactform" action="" method="post">
<p>Name:<br/><input name="name" type="text" required /></p>
<p>Company Name: <br/><input name="company_name" type="text" required/></p>
<p>Telephone: <br/><input name="telephone" type="tel" required/></p>
<p>Email: <br/><input name="email" type="email" required/></p>
<p>Comments: <br/><textarea name="comments" required/> </textarea></p>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send!" formmethod="post"/>
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PEAR is a library of useful functions that is often included in a PHP installation.
BUT. . .PHP only uses the mail capabilities of the server. If the server doesn't allow it, then you may not able to send email no matter what. . .however, I am not absolutely sure of that. I have never had to work with a server that did not support mail.
SMTP is a protocol that uses an email account to send mail. You may be able to tie your mail to an external SMTP account, for instance even a GMAIL account. PHPMailer is an add-on that you can use to do this. You can install it on your website. It isn't hard to use, but it is more involved than simply using PHP mail().
But really, have a conversation with the server admin about all of this. Find out why PHP mail isn't installed, and if he is willing to install it.

I have a new email and am trying to change it in icloud. but it has locked me out and won't send my email a reset password link for some reason. even though it says its sent, it doesnt come to the email address

i have a new email so have a new apple ID now and am trying to change it in icloud. but it has locked me out and won't send my email a reset password link for some reason. even though it says its sent, it doesnt come to the email address. help!

Welcome to the Apple community.
If you are unable to remember your password, security questions, don’t have access to your rescue address or are unable to reset your password for whatever reason, your only option is to contact Apple ID Support, upon speaking to an operator you should explain that your problem is related to your Apple ID, this way you will not be charged for assistance, even if you don’t have an AppleCare plan.
You will need to show patience with the procedure and be prepared to demonstrate without question that the account belongs to you. Don’t expect access to be restored immediately and if you aren’t the owner of the Apple ID registered to the device the account won’t be reset.
This is answer is provided from my own database of boilerplate responses and the content was last reviewed and/or tested on: 2014/12/18

HT1338 Why when trying to change my apple ID password apple won't send the email with the change instructions?

Why when trying to change my apple ID password apple won't send the email with the change instructions?

There is a contact link.
Apple ID Support

Hi. I d like to email a photo from iPhoto but I keep receiving the same error message saying that the combination username /password is incorrect so it won't send the email. How do I reset these parameters so I can email my pix? Thx

Hi. I d like to email a photo from iPhoto but I keep receiving the same error message saying that the combination username /password is incorrect so it won't send the email. How do I reset these parameters so I can email my pix? Thx

You have a number of things that will make this not work.
Your mailto link is not the way to go, take a look at this and it should get you on the right path.
http://www.paulgdesigns.com/learncontactform.php
On your action page, you can have it give the thank you message that you want. Having a seperate page saying they forgot to do something complicates matters more than you might wish at this point, and usually irritates people. however if you decide you want to go that way, look up "sticky forms". What this does is re-populate the fields when they have to go back to correct.
A better way would be to validate the information, you can use Spry if you want which is built into dreamweaver.
You also have in your html form this
enctype="multipart/form-data"
That is used for sending files, and since you are not, the form would not work, so you want to remove it.
Hopefully that will give you a starting point.
Gary

When using 3G on my ipad2, gmail won't send mail. The 2 emails i'm trying to send have 3 pictures attached and are stuck in the Outbox-checkd server under settings

Been trying to send 2 emails from Ipad2 with pictures attached from gmail. Both emails have been stuck in my Outbox and gmail continually tries to send but i keep getting a nessage that the gmail server can't be found. Went under settings, checked server and it seems fine. I don't have Wifi @home or else i'd try switching. Any ideas of what could be happenin'?

daviddavidff, we want you to be able to send and receive! If Earthlink has confirmed the outgoing server settings and you can access the email and send without issue from a labtop I would lean away from it being an issue with the account. If you can receive email then we know the device is communicating with the network.
I would try deleting the any email in the outbox folder http://bit.ly/1g1labk and then attempt to send a new email. Send the email to your own email address so we can verify success. Let us know if you can then send email.
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Gmail won't send emails

When I try and send an email from my gmail account the following things occur.
Pre acts as though it is sending the email. All looks as it should.
I get an error saying that it was unable to send the email
email sits in outbox and every couple of minutes the Pre tries to send the email only to give the error message again.
Some of the attempts to send the email make it through but I have no indication as to when it goes through as it stays in the Outbox and keeps giving me the error messages
I have to go into the Outbox and delete the email to get the error to stop coming. At this point I may have sent a copy out or I may have sent 5 copies out. I have played with the account settings based upon what I have seen recommended to others having similar issues to no avail. Here are my account settings: smtp.gmail.com, Authentication on, username with and without @gmail.com has been tried, password has been entered multiple times to make sure it is there correctly, SSL, and Port 465. Please help!
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I am having the exact same issue. I am unfortunately not sure when it began.
Icthusman1, have you installed any patches? I suspect it may be an issue caused by one.
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Gmail won't send on iPhone 4S/iOS 7.1

Just got a new iPhone and had problems connecting to Gmail. Someone here helped me out and got that problem fixed. Now it won't send. I get the message:
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So I have four emails in my outbox that I can't delete, and they won't send. I can receive email on the phone. I can send and receive email on my iPad and one my computer. So it is a setting in this phone that isn't configured right.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Ok - the problem is solved. I'm going to give you the solution so that you can help others in the future, because it is kind of a pain in the butt, and you mentioned that you didn't use gmail. Before I tell you, thanks for trying to help. It is appreciated.
So for some reason, if you use the built in mail applcation instead of the gmail app, AND if you have two-step authenticaiton turned on (which I do) you can not use your standard password. If you are not using two-step authentication, this is not a problem.
So, you have to go into your gmail account from a web browser, go into your two step authentication settings, and generate what is called an "application specific password." You give it a name. For example, I have one for my iPad, one for my iPhone, etc.
The problem I had was that I had put the applicaiton specific password in for checking mail, but not sending it, because it was marked as "optional" so I didn't think I needed it in both locations since all of my email popped up right away. So I generated a new password for the iPhone and put it in both incoming and outgoing email, and it worked.
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I can send emails from my Ipad with no problem, but not from my Imac, and I,m only 5ft from the Imac.
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It says it sent it to the email i am using, and it sent out the password change, but im not recieving the security question email. HELP

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     3. Apple ID- Contacting Apple for help with Apple ID account security.
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Gmail won't send out going mail on iMac.

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