On port 465 it just sits there with no response. On port 587 it returns "220 mx.google.com ESMTP g31sm5032022ibh.16", which is good right?
Chris Franzen Technology Coordinator Nokomis School District 511 Oberle St. Nokomis, IL 62075 On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Brad Grafelman <[email protected]>wrote: > From the box itself, can you open a connection (e.g. using a telnet/ssh > application) to "smtp.gmail.com" on port 465 or 587? > > > > Thanks, > > Brad Grafelman > E-mail: [email protected] > Phone: (309) 657-5582 > > > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Chris Franzen < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Yes, both worked. >> >> Chris Franzen >> Technology Coordinator >> Nokomis School District >> 511 Oberle St. >> Nokomis, IL 62075 >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:42 AM, William M. Bell <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Can you ping and traceroute the SMTP host from the server? >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------- >>> Bill Bell >>> Asst. Technology Coordinator >>> Monticello CUSD #25 >>> Monticello, IL 61856 >>> http://www.cafepress.com/tech-geeks >>> ---------------------------------------------- >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 7/27/10 10:39 AM, "Chris Franzen" <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> 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 >>> >>> >>> | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | >>> >>> >>> >>> | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | >>> >>> >>> | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | >>> >> >> >> | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | >> > > > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | >
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