[AccessD] Blatt or other email

I use the Gmail smtp server from a small vb.net winforms application I
create to send email to our user group. Nothing special in the setup except
you need to use port 587. The application works fine within the limitations
of what Google allows as far as number of emails sent at any one time and
max per day. I know nothing about the internals of smtp. Found most of the
basic parameter settings in one of the online forums. I do not use ssl from
my end.

Doug 

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Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 3:06 PM
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Subject: Re: [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
>

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