SMTP email

[BeckTek]

Has anyone tried specifically using gmail for smtp?  I am still trying to get this to work, I think it has something to do with gmails authentication requirements ( the same reason you couldnt use gmail with older Outlook clients.

So if someone has a fix that would be awesome.  If not, I will just do it another way.

[Farhad Sakhaei]

We were discuss about this matter in this topic : https://forum.elxis.org/index.php?topic=1789
You should contact your host provider and tell them that let your server to connect thought outgoing port : 465
By solving this issue by your provider , you can connect to the Gmail SMTP by using this address : smtp.gmail.com:465 as your SMTP host
Also you can set the SMTP Auth to Yes in Global Configuration for authentication issue
I think there isn't another way to do this ...

[BeckTek]

I will make another look at it.  Not sure what I am doing wrong.

I am my own hosting provider so there is not a problem with the ports being accessible.

Thanks for the response.  I will try again and see if I can get it to work.

[taji]

hi I have tested the above it cannot work.

any solution for smtp.gmail.com  for port 465 ?

please advise

[datahell]

Why don't you use your local mail server on port 25? You can afterwards forward messages to your gmail account if you wish.

[taji]

by forwarding will be inconvenient.

i have tested  it is working using another smtp host of google

gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com

and it works

but however i try to test the contact us module for elxis and it is not working !  how come ?

it works for user registration but not the contact us modue

any advise will be appreciated

[rentasite]

by forwarding will be inconvenient.

It will not! What you are trying to do is inconvenient.

Keep in mind that, Gmail smtp host has some limits. Search, find and read about that.