[AccessD] Blatt or other email

That would explain it.

I am not doing my own smtp server.  It just seems like another can o worms to maintain, not to 
mention that this is supposed to be a generic solution usable whenever wherever.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 5/21/2012 4:53 PM, Stuart McLachlan wrote:
> Google mail requires SSL/TLS  security over SMTP.  Hence the failure message:
>   "530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first."
>
> Blat doesn't support that protocol directly, you have to combine it with something like sTunnel
> to get it.
>
> If you don't have access to another mail server which doesn't require SSL/TLS, an alternative
> is to instal your own  basic SMTP server locally. Here's the simplest one I know.
> http://www.softstack.com/freesmtp.html
>