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Using Gmail as my SMTP server

In the past I use to host my own email server here at the SOHO of jermsmit.com.  Today I found myself in need of setting up alerts for some of my network based equipment. So I used Gmail (thanks Google) for this task.

To make this work you need the following:

  • A gmail account (make one if you don’t have one
  • Outgoing server address: smtp.gmail.com
  • User  (‘@gmail.com’) and Password for your account
  • Port Address to use is: 587
  • You must use authentication and the client needs to support SSL

Configure this and your all set.