Email configuration Ch 9 p309

Alanrf · February 5th, 2010, 12:24 PM

Hi Imar,

I've been having some issues with this, in common with other contributors to this excellent Forum.

Tried a number of solutions and suggestions in those threads and finally came across your reference to
http://imar.spaanjaars.com/QuickDocId.aspx?quickdoc=505 This was really helpful and finally resolved my problems with Gmail.

I had originally looked at the Google article Configuring other mail clients which helped me locate the required port number, or so I thought. I was under the impression that it was necessary to use the SSL port, #465, but although this did not raise any compile errors the page request timed out.

Once I saw your code and used port #587, the port for TLS/STARTTLS, everything went smoothly.

Just to help clarify my own thought processes, why did the SSL port fail and the TLS/STARTTLS port succeed? If I hadn't read your document I don't think I would have tried that option, because it didn't, at least superficially, match the requirement for SSL.

(As a matter of interest, I found some SMTP port settings for Gmail and Hotmail on http://www.emailaddressmanager.com/t...-settings.html

This suggested SSL port #465 for Gmail. As noted above this did not work.

It also suggested the smtp setting for Hotmail as port #25, using smtp.live.com This was successful, so now I can access two different providers. Can't face the thought of Yahoo, in its various incarnations just yet!)

Imar · February 5th, 2010, 12:38 PM

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why did the SSL port fail and the TLS/STARTTLS port succeed?

I don't know, really. I guess just someone at Google decided to use a differnet port number.

Glad it's working now. In my new book I am spending a bit more time on this, now I discoverd how many people run into this.

Cheers,

Imar