Using GMail with SMF

[smartflight]

I have had problems setting GMail and SMF up to work together. Since a lot of you are having problems, I thought I might post a clean guide on how to use them together.

GMail
- Register an account.
- Goto settings -> Forwarding and POP/IMAP -> Select 'Enable POP for all mail'
- You're done setting up GMail.

SMF 2.0 RC2 (In SMF 1, you goto Admin -> Features and Options -> Server Settings! But then, it's just a guess)

- Log in to the administrator panel.
- Goto Maintenance -> Mail -> Settings
- Use the following settings. The queue option is set up as per x10hosting's limit. If you don't want your account suspended, do as it says here:

Enable mail queue: Tick (On)
Maximum emails to send per minute: 1
Maximum amount of emails to send per page load: 1

Mail Type: SMTP
SMTP server: ssl://smtp.gmail.com (Don't miss out the ssl:// ! It didn't work without that, for me)
SMTP port: 465
SMTP username: username@gmail.com / username@googlemail.com (First one will do for most users)
SMTP password: The password you use with your above mentioned GMail account

- You're done setting up both of them, and they should be working. I have tested it with a new account for activation email and it works.


Good luck!

 

[vishal]

I have had problems setting GMail and SMF up to work together. Since a lot of you are having problems, I thought I might post a clean guide on how to use them together.

GMail
- Register an account.
- Goto settings -> Forwarding and POP/IMAP -> Select 'Enable post for all mail'
- You're done setting up GMail.

SMF 2.0 RC2 (In SMF 1, you goto Admin -> Features and Options -> Server Settings! But then, it's just a guess)

- Log in to the administrator panel.
- Goto Maintenance -> Mail -> Settings
- Use the following settings. They queue option is set up as per x10hosting's limit. If you don't want your account suspended, do as it says here:

Enable mail queue: Tick (On)
Maximum emails to send per minute: 1
Maximum amount of emails to send per page load: 1

Mail Type: SMTP
SMTP server: ssl://smtp.gmail.com (Don't miss out the ssl:// ! It didn't work without that, for me)
SMTP port: 465
SMTP username: username@gmail.com / username@googlemail.com (First one will do for most users)
SMTP password: The password you use with your above mentioned GMail account

- You're done setting up both of them, and they should be working. I have tested it with a new account for activation email and it works.


Good luck!

Thanks smartflight ! i was searching for it.

 

[Zubair]

I have had problems setting GMail and SMF up to work together. Since a lot of you are having problems, I thought I might post a clean guide on how to use them together.

GMail
- Register an account.
- Goto settings -> Forwarding and POP/IMAP -> Select 'Enable post for all mail'
- You're done setting up GMail.

SMF 2.0 RC2 (In SMF 1, you goto Admin -> Features and Options -> Server Settings! But then, it's just a guess)

- Log in to the administrator panel.
- Goto Maintenance -> Mail -> Settings
- Use the following settings. They queue option is set up as per x10hosting's limit. If you don't want your account suspended, do as it says here:

Enable mail queue: Tick (On)
Maximum emails to send per minute: 1
Maximum amount of emails to send per page load: 1

Mail Type: SMTP
SMTP server: ssl://smtp.gmail.com (Don't miss out the ssl:// ! It didn't work without that, for me)
SMTP port: 465
SMTP username: username@gmail.com / username@googlemail.com (First one will do for most users)
SMTP password: The password you use with your above mentioned GMail account

- You're done setting up both of them, and they should be working. I have tested it with a new account for activation email and it works.


Good luck!

Helpful

but this is wrong section for this post. This thread must be in Tutorials section

 

[smartflight]

You're welcome.

An interesting observation was that GMail suspected my account when I received the activation email.
It might be because I requested activation on the account which was used to send out the emails.

If anyone else comes across this issue, just have your account verified by SMS, it will only take seconds.
There's a second option too, but I don't remember it.

 

[smartflight]

Helpful

but this is wrong section for this post. This thread must be in Tutorials section

I posted it here since anyone who is about to post about the error will look it up here.
It would be best if you move it to the correct board after the PHP mailing issues are resolved.