I follow the instructions on Mystic's website on recommendations for getting Mystic to email via Gmail and I followed them including allowing lowered
secure connections. Any help greatly appreciated! Here is the log output,

------------------- Node 2 (Mystic v1.12 A46 2020/08/26)
2020.12.27 17:39:03 Connect from local (local)
2020.12.27 17:39:03 Set time left 30 TE=1089
2020.12.27 17:39:10 Bad password attempt
2020.12.27 17:39:12 Bad password attempt
2020.12.27 17:39:13 Bad password attempt
2020.12.27 17:39:16 SMTP R:220 smtp.gmail.com ESMTP k76sm28749451ilk.36 -
gsmtp
2020.12.27 17:39:16 SMTP S:EHLO bbs.8bitclassics.com
2020.12.27 17:39:16 SMTP R:250-smtp.gmail.com at your service,
2020.12.27 17:39:16 SMTP R:250-SIZE 35882577
2020.12.27 17:39:16 SMTP R:250-8BITMIME
2020.12.27 17:39:16 SMTP R:250-STARTTLS
2020.12.27 17:39:16 SMTP R:250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
2020.12.27 17:39:16 SMTP R:250-PIPELINING
2020.12.27 17:39:16 SMTP R:250-CHUNKING
2020.12.27 17:39:16 SMTP R:250 SMTPUTF8
2020.12.27 17:39:16 SMTP S:STARTTLS
2020.12.27 17:39:16 SMTP R:220 2.0.0 Ready to start TLS
2020.12.27 17:39:18 Could not connect to SMTP server
2020.12.27 17:39:22 Shutting down

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
* Origin: 8-Bit Classics BBS (21:2/133)