Have you tried manually opening up the gmail account you are sending from in the browser and looking for anything funny? I have had similar issues where the gmail was needing a security prompt/response. I wrote a service to send mails asynchronously (in case the gmail connection was down and generally to give a speedy UI response) using the ZdcSecureSMTPClient, which is working like a charm.
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