Hello! Im having the same error. I previously had everything running on a Raspberry Pi with version 1.8.2. Now I am changing the RPi for a server and I installed the same node but version 1.11.0.
I have my gmail set to less secure apps already but still the node doesn't save the credentials.
Oh, you are right about the version. I wonder why mine is not offering an upgrade. That is a different issue for me to worry about though.
Can you stop node red and start it again in a terminal and paste the log here please, that will tell us about your environment. Copy/paste please not screenshot. When you paste it in use the </> button at the top of the forum entry field and paste it in.
For a strange reason it seems to be a browser issue.
Normally I use Chrome and works fine with the raspberry.
On this server on Chrome only loads the dashboard,but not the editor. It gets stuck on the "loading plugins" screen. So I had to work on the Internet Explorer.
What seemed to be strange is that I also got a node-red-contrib-ui-lednode error. It appeared to be missing, but it was installed and leds were displaying properly on Chrome. So I decided to give Firefox a try and everything is working perfectly! It saves the email credentials and leds work normally on dashboard and editor.
The wierd thing is that the raspberry's node red works perfectly on chrome, but not the server's node red.
It's my first post here so Hello everybody.
I recommend to watch this tutorial: (827) How to Send Emails with Node-RED Using groov RIO - YouTube
Then go back to your Google account security settings and confirm You done all security changes (allowing less secure apps, adding the passswords).
In my case that help and all up and running
And please give for Opto more likes, he done a great job.
Regards Raf.