SMTP Settings for Gmail

Had to play with this a little bit to get it to work. Have very simply requirements and just wanted to ensure the manager could send out the "forgotten password" email if I ever forgot it. Here were my settings:

mail_smtp_auth Yes
mail_smtp_hosts smtp.gmail.com
mail_smtp_pass [password]
mail_smtp_port 465
mail_smtp_prefix ssl
mail_smtp_user [[email protected]]
mail_user_smtp Yes

The two pieces that tripped me up was the "prefix" (SMTPSecure) -- I was looking around to see where you set it for ssl and just missed this one. The second part was the port -- I was trying 587 until I found a reference to 465.

At any rate, with these settings I was sending email through Gmail from the manager on my barebones Ubuntu server (ie. doesn't have sendmail).

Just a note, this failed for me on localhost until I figured out that Gmail doesn't like to see 'localhost' in an email address or domain name.



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Use 587 with tls prefix, it works for me...

587 port is set by default, tls prefix is not. So set 'tls'.

Thanks Lord Daedra! Helped me a lot!