Some websites have a "contact us" button; when you click it, an email form pops up. I type my question and choose my gmail address for sending it, press send, and a box appears asking for my smpt.gmail password. I do not know it and there is no way to change it. How can I reset that password?
Wendy
MacBook Pro (15-inch 2.53 GHz), iOS 8, 10.6.8
It should be the same password that you use to get into your Gmail account in Mail or in their web page.
First, it's wrong to say 'there is no way to change' your gmail password. There has to be. You not knowing how does not mean it can't be done. If passwords could never be changed then they offer no significant security benefit.
Separate to that, though, what site(s) are you referring to. I cannot think of any (legitimate) web form that would require your own email credentials to send the site operator an email - when you submit the web form, the data goes to their web server, and it is THEIR server that generates the email. It never touches your account and doesn't need your password.
If you're using a form that does ask for your mail password then I would run away. Fast. It smells fishy to me.
I cannot send "contact us" emails because I don't know my smtp password.
