Email sending issue with Gmail accounts

[skippy76]

We are currently investigating an issue when trying to send messages to gmail accounts.

If anyone has been experiencing issues while trying to send emaisl from the email element of the Visual Programmer, please let us know in this sub forum.

Thanks

Andrew

[skippy76]

After further investigation it would appear that Gmail only supports SMTP using TLS. TLS is the interface used for secure email sending.

To resolve this issue which may also be experienced with other Email service providors, we will need to implemnt secure SMTP for the email component of HCA.

We will keep you posted with the progress on this development.

Andrew

[ghostt]

If you need further input I can assist if needed. I've been using Google Apps for several of my domain's mail services for a while now, and have been using the e-mail element in HCA to send mail through my google apps smtp setup for several weeks. I have a lot of mail going from HCA as well, as I use it as a debugging tool for automated tasks in HCA (making sure things run when they're supposed to, etc).

You are correct though, TLS is absolutely required to use Google as an SMTP server. I use a local postfix SMTP server on a linux machine that gateways the SMTP traffic to Google's SMTP servers. I'm not quite sure how to setup TLS directly from a Windows machine running HCA to Google though.

[mjl]

I think you can also use the local SMTP virtual server included with IIS on XP/2003 to store and forward SMTP. It's been a while since I've used it, but I think it can do TLS on output. I used to use it to forward HCA e-mal to my ISP prior to setting up my exchange server, which I am using now.

I also use the google apps accounts to manage external e-mail for my local domain and it works very well.