Bitwarden-lite doesn't send verification emails

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I tried to log in to the admin portal of my self-hosted Bitwarden Lite installation. The server should send a confirmation email, but nothing happened. I don’t know if the email was even sent or if there was an error. There are no errors in the log files.
How can I find out if an email was actually sent?

EMail-Settings in settings.env file:

globalSettings__mail__replyToEmail=myemail
globalSettings__mail__smtp__host=smtp.gmail.com
globalSettings__mail__smtp__port=587
globalSettings__mail__smtp__ssl=false
globalSettings__mail__smtp__startTls=true
globalSettings__mail__smtp__username=myemail
globalSettings__mail__smtp__password=mypassword

adminSettings__admins=myemail

regards
Josef

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I’m not sure, if my bitwarden server even sent the email or the mail server rejected the server.

regards
Josef

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Hey Josef,

I don’t think gmail supports SMTP using your standard gmail password anymore. You must generate and use an app password from within your gmail settings to use SMTP now.