Emails are not sending during authentication process

[joshi1983]

It looks like emails should be sent by AccessLocator are not actually going through. This affects several features but I'll give some specific steps to reproduce in a few specific features.

Sign in

1. Go to https://app.accesslocator.com/signin and enter a username and password.
2. The following message appears which is expected. What is not expected is I never see the email in my inbox, spam, or anywhere else after hours or days of waiting for it.
   

Sign Up

1. Go to https://app.accesslocator.com/signup
2. Submit the required information. Wait a few seconds. The following error message appears.
   

This might be a problem with the email settings, credentials given to PHPMailer. It might be the result of some changes with a gmail account authenticated with for these emails. It might also be some network configuration changes where a port got blocked recently.