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Let your b4 Project Manager know once you have approved each authSMTP request for each email address you will be using so that we can configure your FROM addresses and notifications in your installation.
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your workplace uses GMail addresses or Google workstations ...
Two-factor authentication (2FA) should be used on your GMail account, which requires a special pairing password be generated for 3rd party senders.
This avoids any requirement for you to share your actual GMail credentials with us. Is this already enabled?. If you need assistance setting this up, please contact your Project Manager at b4.Are your GMail accounts setup as business accounts? Non-business accounts can only send ~20 emails an hour or 500 a day. Going over this limit regularly can lead to GMail temporarily suspending the account. Registering the address with GMail as a business email enables upwards of 2000 emails a day.
Note that each recipient is counted as a send; so, one email sent to a guest that is also BCC's to you would count as 2 sends.
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Go to your Google Account.
Select Security.
Under "Signing in to Google," select App Passwords. You may need to sign in. If you don’t have this option, it might be because:
2-Step Verification is not set up for your account.
2-Step Verification is only set up for security keys.
Your account is through work, school, or other organization.
You turned on Advanced Protection.
At the bottom, choose Select app and choose 'Mail' then 'Select device' and choose 'Other' then provide the name "B4Email" and finally select 'Generate'.
Please use https://password.link/u/secrets/new and copy the password generated (the one with the yellow background) and paste it in the "secret" text box, click Encrypt and create link.
Email that link to ryan@b4checkin.com and he will complete the setup.
Steps 5 & 6 keep your unique code as secure as possible and will "self-destruct" once we have retrieved the password.