gmail SMTP and port 465

[Raffa87]

Hi!

Thank you very much for your answer.

I checked it again and, unluckily, it wasn't a typo, in the VI it was written smtp.gmail.com ...

Thank you!

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@altenbach  ha scritto:

I assume you mean smtp.gmail.com. if you misspell the server, it will not work on any port.

As outlined in my first post, Google has tightened the encryption standards, so this will not work with Gmail servers. It might still work with other smtp servers.

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[Raffa87]

Hi!

Thank you for your answer!

It seems an interesting solution but I was not able to get it worked...

Where can I find a documentation of the program?

I also did not completely understand how stunnel works... Does it manage all the communication from my PC to any SMTP server?

Thank you for your support!

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@billko  ha scritto:

You can use stunnel to set up a proxy mail server on your computer (it's a lot easier than it sounds) to send whatever email system on whatever port using whatever encryption.

I use it with applications that are so stupid and/or outdated that they insist on using port 25, no encryption, to send email!

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[altenbach]

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@billko wrote:

You can use stunnel to set up a proxy mail server on your computer (it's a lot easier than it sounds) to send whatever email system on whatever port using whatever encryption.

I use it with applications that are so stupid and/or outdated that they insist on using port 25, no encryption, to send email!

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Curiously, access to your stunnel link seems to be blocked by our firewall at work. Wonder what's that all about.

Still, this is something I might look into for my security system. My DVR sends me email with pictures if motion is detected, but since the above mentioned changes at Gmail, it is no longer compatible. With Gmail, messages arrived within seconds, but with the smtp server from the ISP that I am forced to use now,  it takes at least a minute. Would be great to go back to Gmail for that. 🙂

[Raffa87]

...at the end of the story, I am writing a Python script and I'm calling it through the System Exec .vi...

Thank you!