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Had it happen again. This time I have found that if you have too many motion alerts going to yahoo mail to be forwarded on to Gmail, Yahoo will flag your account as a "Spam" sender and stop sending your email on to Gmail. I went to my Yahoo email and see all my motion alerts sitting in my ...

That was an excellent idea!!!! I was under the impression that Yahoo email was unlimited usage. Turns out it is only 1 terabyte! LOL. I haven't checked it for 3 years and probably exceeded one of the limits. After hours of figuring out how to do mass deletions in Yahoo email, it worked. Thank you so...

Well, it has happened to me again. This morning sometime after 2:40am EST 10/31/21, my cameras stopped sending email alerts. I used the fix mentioned earlier in this discussion (see Feb 12, 2021) and everything has been working wonderfully since then. Does anyone know of a new development that would...

Thanks EK88, you are right, that is the solution to our problem. I was coming back here to relay what I found, but you beat me to it. I played around and found it yesterday morning too. However, I've only updated 4 of my cameras so far, but I've been able to use the same APP password for all four. I...

I own 10 Amcrest Cameras that have been working wonderfully for over a year. February 8th they all stopped sending email alerts. I test each one and the emails fail. I am using Yahoo as the email sender and Gmail as the receiving email address. Has anyone else experienced a sudden similar issue? I'v...

I posted this on the "General Security" forum, which is discussing the same issue, and used the solution posted there. Here's what I posted: I too switched to outlook smtp as suggested in this thread. It worked at first after hitting "Reset Defaults" and entering the SMTP server ...

I too switched to outlook smtp as suggested in this thread. It worked at first after hitting "Reset Defaults" and entering the SMTP server that Bryan set up for "ripkabyl". But it has now become intermittent in it's email alerts, stopping for 18 to 24 hours, then starting up in t...