Dirk: How to set up SMTP for GMail

2008-01-01T20:43:48Z

How to set up SMTP for GMail

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[http://mail.google.com/ GMail] (or Google Mail) is Google's free email service. While originally only web-based, it has since added support for POP3, SMTP, and IMAP.

To use your GMail account to send emails from your Geeklog site, use this setup in your config.php (settings taken from [http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78799 here]):

<pre>$_CONF['mail_settings'] = array (
'backend' => 'smtp', // can be one of 'mail', 'sendmail', 'smtp'

// sendmail parameters (only needed for 'backend' => 'sendmail')
'sendmail_path' => '/usr/bin/sendmail',
'sendmail_args' => '',

// SMTP parameters (only needed for 'backend' => 'smtp')
'host' => 'smtp.gmail.com',
'port' => '587',
'auth' => true,
'username' => 'your-account@gmail.com',
'password' => 'your-gmail-password'
);</pre>

Note that your username must include the "@gmail.com". Also, while Google lists two possible ports, only 587 seems to work with Geeklog (or the PEAR::Mail class that Geeklog uses here). Don't forget to set <code>auth</code> to '''true'''!

'''Important:''' Emails sent via GMail will use your GMail account name and email address in the "From:", ''not'' the address set in <code>$_CONF['site_mail']</code>. This is different from other SMTP servers. So only use GMail if that isn't a problem for you.

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