Using stunnel looks ingenious. However two issues: 1. I run an instance of MLO on my office laptop .. IT folks won't allow installation of something like stunnel on my laptop. 2. Given instructions include giving away my personal gmail account password within the setup process. Cannot think of giving away and storing password like this.
How do I resolve, then? Regards Yogesh On Monday, January 16, 2012 10:28:09 PM UTC+5:30, qhamel wrote: > > I use gmail as well. I finally got it to work using a small program > (service) called stunnel that runs on my computer and talks to the > gmail server. > > Here is a more detailed explanation on how to configure use MLO with > Gmail: > GMail as your SMTP server > GMail requires secure connections > If you want to configure MLO to use GMail as its SMTP server, you > will > find that currently MLO does not support secure (TLS/STARTTLS) > connections for email. To work around this, you will need to run > another program (stunnel) to "wrap" MLO's connection to GMail. MLO > will then connect to stunnel, which will connect to gmail. > Download / Configure stunnel > Download the latest windows Stunnell installer and run the installer. > Install stunnel to the directory C:\Stunnel. > Inside the c:\Stunnel directory create a text file called > gmailsmtp.txt with the following content (8 lines). > ; SMTP configuration for Gmail > output = SMTPgmail.log > taskbar = no > cert = stunnel.pem > client = yes > [ssmtp] > accept = 10.0.0.1:8025 > connect = smtp.gmail.com:465 > Change 10.0.0.1 to your computer's IP address or name. Do not use > "localhost" or 127.0.0.1 as that won't work. The best way is to go to > Control Panel and click on "System" and click on the Computer name > tab. Highlight and copy the full computer name for your PC. > Open a command prompt (cmd.exe) and navigate to the stunnel install > directory (CD C:\Stunnel). Enter the following 2 commands to run > stunnel as a Windows Service: > stunnel -install gmailsmtp.txt > net start stunnel > Now Configure MLO email settings > Now you need to configure MLO Email Settings to connect to stunnel. > Your SMTP server: Your computer name you just got off of the computer > name tab > Port: 8025 > Check My server requires Authentication > Userid: your gmail address ([email protected]) > Password: your gmail password > Now press the "Test" button. If you configured everything correctly, > a > test email will be sent. This test email will also show up inside > your > gmail account in the "Sent Mail" folder. > > On Jan 9, 8:34 am, SG <[email protected]> wrote: > > I see there's a feature to send an alert to your email. > > > > When I try to set this up it comes up with error message Socket error # > > 11001 Host not found. It says SMTP needs to be set up. I don't know > what > > this means other than it has something to do with email. I tried > > smtp.google.com port 25 (and another port # I found online) but it > still > > does not work. > > > > I use google email. I don't download to a client. What do I need to > do? > > > > thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mylifeorganized/-/MItLZp8T5YgJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en.
