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WordPress Ecommerce with WordPress and WooCommerce Managing Orders in WooCommerce Setting Up Test Orders in WooCommerce

Amsandra Johansson
Amsandra Johansson
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Posted by Amsandra Johansson
Amsandra Johansson
20,395 Points

Managing Orders in WooCommerce - regarding the test email

Hi,

I have set up my test just as Zac in the video (seeing as my email is also with Google). For whatever reason the test fails and I've yet to figure out why. Do you have any ideas why this might happen and how I might be able to remedy it?

Thanks, Amsandra

4 Answers

Zac Gordon
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Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Zac Gordon
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Where are you hosting this? Locally?

You also need to make sure you have SMTP enabled in Google.

Amsandra Johansson
Amsandra Johansson
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Amsandra Johansson
Amsandra Johansson
20,395 Points

Thank you Zac for your reply and thanks for a great course :) Yes, I am hosting it locally right now, using MAMP. Could you explain to me how to enable it in Google?

Arlo Erdaka
Arlo Erdaka
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Arlo Erdaka
Arlo Erdaka
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Hi Amsandra,

I had trouble setting it up with my free gmail account, but succeeded when I tried with my Google Apps account. Not really sure why this is, though.

geoffrey
geoffrey
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geoffrey
geoffrey
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Hey there, I know this post is quite old, but I've got some similar issues with the WP MAIL plugin, I'm working locally. I tried to send an e-mail as test several times, and everytime It failed! However, after few minutes I got an e-mail from G-mail telling they blocked some attempts to connect to my Google account. In this mail, they gave me the choice to change some settings letting less protected applications to access my google account, I just checked this checkbox, and now that works. So I guess these settings can be changed directly without getting this warning.