Has anyone used Putty to link to GMail?

[RichAlgeni]

I have a client that is trashing their Exchange server and going with GMail for their email. I want to create a secure persistent tunnel to the GMail SMTP server. Has anyone done this? Any thoughts, suggestions or caveats???

Putty will run (I hope sucessfully) on a Windows 2008 Server.

[sec]

I found this http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answ ... swer=78775

If you tried configuring your SMTP server on port 465 (with SSL) and port 587 (with TLS), but are still having trouble sending mail, try configuring your SMTP to use port 25 (with SSL).

As it default setting is using SSL/TLS so your username/password is secured.

[RichAlgeni]

Excellent, thanks!

We've talked quite a bit, but I still don't know your first name!

Rich

[RichAlgeni]

I never could get this working correctly, even though each separate part worked. Together, it just never would authenticate. That's why I switched gears and went to a SSL based program rather than a TLS tunnel.