How to send simple email or gmail from LabVIEW?

[Netsballer92]

I would like to send a simple and short email from LabVIEW to any email, (gmail,hotmail...) whatever one is easiest? Thanks

[wiebe@CARYA]

You'd use the SMTP functions, in the SMTP Email palette.

[Netsballer92]

Thank you for the response.

This what keeps happening.

[wiebe@CARYA]

Maybe:

To resolve this issue, log in to your Gmail account through a web browser and enable access through less secure apps. If that's not the reason Gmail isn't working in your email client, you may need to unlock it.

form this link...

Firewall might be blocking LV, or SMTP in general...

[Netsballer92]

Thanks, I will try, and get back to you.

[Netsballer92]

Is it true that gmail does not allow LabVIEW to send emails anymore?

[RavensFan]

It is not true.

I use a gmail account all the time to send e-mails from LabVIEW.

[Bob_Schor]

Not two weeks ago, I asked a similar question (and figured out the answer) on this very Forum (look here).  I was trying to send to GMail via our organization's SMTP server, and got hung up by GMail's Two-factor authentication.  The "Fix" was to use my organization's special "Mail-forwarding" server (which also uses SMTP).  I even discovered (to my Shock and Horror) that the Express VI for sending Mail worked just fine!

Bob Schor

[Netsballer92]

Thanks for the response.

I saw the missing wire you found.

Yet I still got this error in the attached picture below

[Netsballer92]

Sorry I forgot to try the "Mail-forwarding" server. Once I have it does it get replaced with smtp.gmail.com?