500 Error on Email Test using GMail as a mailer

Hi Andres,

Based on those errors, it seems like the calendar is also using Google’s API. Here’s specifically where I’m looking:

#6 /home/p in /home/public_html/wp-content/plugins/google-calendar-events/vendor/google/apiclient/src/Google/Auth/OAuth2.php on line 186

I don’t believe I’ve seen this particular issue before, but my guess would be that you’re using the Google mailer option (which also uses Google’s API), and that’s what’s causing the conflict.

If you are using the Google mailer, then the best next step would be to try using a different mailer option. I believe this could help since none of the others use Google’s API.

And in case it’s helpful to you, here’s our base article for all of our SMTP setup tutorials. That way you can easily find a tutorial for a different mailer option.

I hope this helps!

Hi Andres,

We haven’t heard back from you in about a week, so I’m going to go ahead and mark this thread as closed.

If you have additional questions, though, please feel welcome to continue the conversation. Thanks!

Hi, Jess
I have the same issue.
There is a problem when installing this plugin.
Simple Calendar
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Hi Takashi (@tkc49),

For details on why I believe you’re seeing this error, as well as my recommendation to avoid it, please see my original reply on this thread.

Thanks! ??

Hi, Jess!
Thank you??

Hi @jquigam,

I have the exact same problem @andxres and @tkc49 have. While trying to send the email test I have:

Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘Google_Auth_Exception’ with message ‘Could not json decode the token’ in /home/***/wp-content/plugins/google-calendar-events/vendor/google/apiclient/src/Google/Auth/OAuth2.php:186
Stack trace:
#0 /home/***/wp-content/plugins/google-calendar-events/vendor/google/apiclient/src/Google/Client.php(218): Google_Auth_OAuth2->setAccessToken(Array)
#1 /home/***/wp-content/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/src/Providers/Gmail/Auth.php(120): Google_Client->setAccessToken(Array)
#2 /home/***/wp-content/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/src/Providers/Gmail/Auth.php(37): WPMailSMTP\Providers\Gmail\Auth->get_client()
#3 /home/***/wp-content/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/src/Providers/Gmail/Mailer.php(79): WPMailSMTP\Providers\Gmail\Auth->__construct()
#4 /home/***/wp-content/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/src/MailCatcher.php(122): WPMailSMTP\Providers\Gmail\Mailer->send()
#5 /home/***/wp-includes/ in /home/***/wp-content/plugins/google-calendar-events/vendor/google/apiclient/src/Google/Auth/OAuth2.php on line 186

I have both “WP Mail SMTP” and “Simple Calendar” plugins installed and activated. If I deactivate “Simple Calendar”, the mail is send successfully.

There is clearly a conflict between those two plugins. I need “Simple Calendar”, and I would prefer not to change the mailer option (for maintenance, I prefer to have all the Google API’s we need centralized in a single Google account : the account of our association).

What can I do?

What if I rename “setAccessToken” function for one of the two plugins? It might work? But it would be annoying for plugin updates…

Thank your for your help,

Jean

• This reply was modified 5 years, 3 months ago by JeanThoumelin.

I feel compelled to add that I ran into this issue today and fought with it for quite a few hours before finding out the conflict with Simple Calendar. A workaround to coexist with Simple Calendar would be extremely helpful.