Facing problems using smtp.gmail.com as smtp server

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Hi.

I was trying to use smtp.gmail.com as the smtp server for sending out emails. I made all the enteries in the WEB-INF/config/jforum-custom.conf.
But it is not working. The default port for smtp is 25 but gmail is using 465 .. Could this be the reason ?? has anyone else has configured jforum with gmail ?? Any idea what needs to be done to resolve this ..??

Thanks for your time
Dhillon
[originally posted on jforum.net by dhillon]

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You can set like this:

mail.smtp.host = smtp.gmail.com:465

However, to make things simpler, I added a new configuration key to the cvs: mail.smtp.port.

Have fun.

Rafael
[originally posted on jforum.net by Rafael Steil]

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Hi Rafael,

thank for the tip. but i tried to give the port number like you have given, but it did not work.

Is there anything else i could try out ??

Thanks,
Dhillon
[originally posted on jforum.net by dhillon]

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Hi again,

I took the latest code from the cvs and them tried to debug with it .. Spammer is not able to make the connection with the gmail smtp server. It does not throw an error but just hangs there on the

transport.connect(host.substring(0, colon), Integer.parseInt(host.substring(colon + 1)),
username, password);

In the mean time could you suggest me a free smtp server which has been tried and test with the forum.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Thanks for you time
Dhillon
[originally posted on jforum.net by dhillon]

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What does you mean by "hang"?

Rafael
[originally posted on jforum.net by Rafael Steil]

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It is not able to connect to smtp server and the operation times out. I was using eclipse to debug it, so in the debug mode it just hang over when executing the statement below..

Dhillon
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