Notifications from email events fail to send out
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PRODUCTK2 blackpearl 4.7
BASED ONK2 blackpearl 4.7
TAGSEmail Event
K2 Workspace
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Issue
Notifications from Email Events are not getting sent out and the workflow goes into an error state with the following error shown on K2 Workspace > Error Profiles:
Symptoms
From the K2 Host Server logs, the error below is logged at the same time:
"SourceCode.Workflow.Common.SmtpMail","0 SMTP mail send failure: Verify the SMTP connection strings are correct and that SMTP is working properly. Exception: The SMTP server requires a secure connection or the client was not authenticated. The server response was: 5.7.1 Client was not authenticated"
Troubleshooting Steps
To resolve the issue, please complete the following steps:
1. Open the ConnectionStringEditor.exe in [Drive]:Program Files (x86)K2 blackpearlHost ServerBin
2. Modify each SMTP connection string and set Authentication to 'Plain' and input the UserID and Password used to authenticate with.
