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Can Gmail Work for the Email

edited December 2006 in Vanilla 1.0 Help
How would I setup gmail for the SMTP server, this always confuses me, is it possible? Incoming Mail (POP3) Server - requires SSL: pop.gmail.com Use SSL: Yes Port: 995 Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server - requires TLS: smtp.gmail.com (use authentication) Use Authentication: Yes Use STARTTLS: Yes (some clients call this SSL) Port: 465 or 587 Account Name: your Gmail username (including '@gmail.com') Email Address: your full Gmail email address (username@gmail.com) Password: your Gmail password

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  • New
    you could try going into conf/settings.php and adding these lines $Configuration['SMTP_HOST'] = 'smtp.gmail.com:465'; $Configuration['SMTP_USER'] = 'yourusername@gmail.com'; $Configuration['SMTP_PASSWORD'] = 'yourgmailpassword'; let us know if it works.
  • edited September 2006
    Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to smtp.gmail.com:465 (A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond. ) in E:\Inetpub\wwwroot\addicted\boards\library\Framework\Framework.Class.Email.php on line 184 I don't think so, does anyone know where I can get a free email that supports SMTP? No, My ISP came with yahoo mail.
  • New
    You could just use an open SMTP relay. I'm pretty sure mail.freeserve.co.uk should work as the SMTP server. You dont need any login details.
  • Why not setup your own mail server? I use Argosoft freeware for testing on windows, works for drupal, may work for vanilla too.
  • New
    If you are going to go the"setup your own mailserver" route may I suggest hMailServer. I have used it before and I like it over all the rest. It is free and open-source. Easy to setup too. http://www.hmailserver.com/
  • http://www.aim.com
    http://mail.aim.com

    Your aim screen name is also ScreeName@aim.com email address with IMAP, SMTP outgoing, 2GB storage space!
    I think google has the smtp service as well.
  • ✭
    be careful when settings up your own mail server, some well known mail servers(gmail, yahoo most of all i think, hotmail) will direct it to the spam or deny it all together... just because it is an easy way to create spam addresses to use
  • Waterskiaddict block userblock commentpermalink be careful when settings up your own mail server, some well known mail servers(gmail, yahoo most of all i think, hotmail) will direct it to the spam or deny it all together... just because it is an easy way to create spam addresses to use

    Thanks for the tip, it was a big help. An existing mailserver like @gmail.com or @aim.com doesn't get marked as spam and also no need for SMTP option. Thanks again!!!
  • New
    Note: GMAIL has a limit of up to 250 outgoing emails a day via SMTP (or rather 250 recipients a day I think). 500 if sent from the gmail interface.
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