Yep, I have enabled SMTP authentication. POP access for the account I'm
using wasn't defined, so I turned it all on.  Was already trying both the
TLS and SSL with 465 and 587.  I've gotten this error 99% of the time: SMTP
Error! Could not connect to SMTP host.
*
*Chris Franzen
Technology Coordinator
Nokomis School District
511 Oberle St.
Nokomis, IL  62075



On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Brad Grafelman <[email protected]>wrote:

> First thing's first - are you enabling SMTP authentication? To send e-mail
> through GMail's SMTP servers, you must authenticate using your GMail
> username and password.
>
> Also, your username and password may or may not work unless you've enabled
> POP access in your GMail/Google Account Settings page.
>
> In addition, GMail's SMTP servers also require a secure connection. As per
> the Google Docs:
>
> *Port for TLS/STARTTLS*: 587
> *Port for SSL*: 465
>
> You say you tried those two ports, but did you also have SSL or TLS enabled
> as well?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brad Grafelman
> E-mail: [email protected]
> Phone: (309) 657-5582
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Chris Franzen <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to get the send mail settings correctly adjusted to work with
>> gmail.  Lots of endless google queries and nothing to show for it.  Main
>> purpose for it to be functioning correctly is a roombooker addon that
>> e-mails the user after they sign up for a lab.  I've tried both a generic
>> gmail account set to use unsecured e-mail and also one of our regular google
>> apps 4 edu accounts with HTTPS required.
>> Has anyone had any luck in setting this up correctly?  I must be missing
>> something.  I did have outbound port 25 blocked at the firewall except for
>> my old exchange server, but I changed it to my webserver IP and it didn't
>> seem to matter.  Also used ports 465 and 587 in the port config setting to
>> no luck.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Chris Franzen
>> Technology Coordinator
>> Nokomis School District
>> 511 Oberle St.
>> Nokomis, IL  62075
>>
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