how to relay mail through gmail

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Sebastiaan Janssen 5045 posts 15476 karma points MVP admin hq

Jul 01, 2009 @ 16:58
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How to relay mail through Gmail

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If you don't have an smtp server available on your hosting machine, you can use your Gmail account to relay your mail.
The disadvantage of doing this is that the "from" address will always be your Gmail account's address.

When you create content item, you have an optional checkbox "Mailserver SSL on". We need SSL for Gmail, so set this checkbox to true.

In your web.config, use these settings:
```
  <system.net>
    <mailSettings>
      <smtp>
        <network 
         host="smtp.gmail.com" 
            port="587"
            userName="yourGmailAccount" 
          password="yourGmailPassword" 
         defaultCredentials="false"
        />
      </smtp>
    </mailSettings>
  </system.net>
```
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Jan Skovgaard 11280 posts 23678 karma points MVP 10x admin c-trib

Jul 01, 2009 @ 22:51

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This is a great tip and I really like it :) But I am wondering if it should'nt be placed in a wiki rather in a post on the forum?

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Jesper Ordrup 1019 posts 1528 karma points MVP

Jul 02, 2009 @ 00:07

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Id say both. This probably how wiki material starts. Now we just need a way of handling this. Would be cool if we could mark posts as potiential wiki material and process them later.

/Jesper

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Jan Skovgaard 11280 posts 23678 karma points MVP 10x admin c-trib

Jul 02, 2009 @ 00:11

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Yes that would be a nice feature I think. But maybe I was also to fast. Have first realised that this post is actually related to the page with the package :)

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Laurence Gillian 600 posts 1219 karma points

Sep 10, 2010 @ 13:04

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Just wanted to say, thank you! x

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MartinB 411 posts 512 karma points

Jan 30, 2011 @ 01:35

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Wrong thread, sorry :)

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sharad kumar rathore 23 posts 42 karma points

Jul 18, 2013 @ 16:36

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hi,

I tried putting the smtp configuration in both .config file and from the code behind (SMTPClient object) but unfortunately, none of them are working. Can you please suggest me what to do to resolve the problem? Did I miss any thing here? Waiting for your kind and earliest response on this. Thanks in advance for your time.

Regards,

sharad kumar rathore

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Amir Khan 1282 posts 2739 karma points

Jul 18, 2013 @ 22:09

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What version of Umbraco are you using? This works without modification when added in web.config on some versions (i want to say 4.5+) but required a fix on previous versions.

Also, make sure you're using FQDN for the username and check if they are in your gmail outbox. I always use gmail for SMTP, sometimes you'll just overlook something and it won't work as expected.

-Amir

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