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Has anyone used Putty to link to GMail?
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 6:59 am
by 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.
Re: Has anyone used Putty to link to GMail?
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 9:11 am
by 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.
Re: Has anyone used Putty to link to GMail?
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 10:31 pm
by RichAlgeni
Excellent, thanks!
We've talked quite a bit, but I still don't know your first name!
Rich
Re: Has anyone used Putty to link to GMail?
Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2012 2:53 am
by 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.