Error creating email trigger

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I am creating a Email Trigger (IMAP) that monitors designated customer support email for new messages. When I enter my credentials with gmail or outlook. I get an error “login failed”. I tried to login direct to gmail and outlook, it worked. For some reason n8n will not accept credentials using the Email Trigger (IMAP) node . I followed the instruction n n8n doc help but it didn’t help. I am the only one?

What is the error message (if any)?

Couldn’t connect with these settings

Invalid credentials (Failure)

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@bbrown007 welcome to the N8n community.

For Gmail you cannot use your regular Gmail password. You must generate a special App Password, almost same with outlook. Do you understand?

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I seen that in the doc, I will try with app password. Thank You

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Ok @bbrown007 try it and let me know the results.

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It worked! Thank you very much! I was under the impression, I will not need to add the app password if 2FA is disabled.

This only worked for Gmail. Outlook for some reason is still giving me a problem. I don’t need it any longer, I will keep using Gmail’s app password. Thanks again.

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