Hi thanks Roger, I will check it out. I also stumbled onto something deep into the Gmail "Settings" tab. "Disable your CAPTCHA" ! Sounds promising. A newer security feature outdating most of the manuals and conventional wisdom here, me thinks. Bernie, KC9SGV On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 5:05 PM, G6CKR <radio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It was mentioned a few days ago that the sever uses the ISP of the > server owner to send mail to the interne. > I bit confusing if you are being the client as well for testing. > As the client you should be able to collect mail from you gmail account > using the gmail details you would expect. > For sending, apart from the client supplying the return address the > server info should be that for your ISP. > So unless gmail really is your ISP, setting the smtp info to that of > your ISP should get you going. > 73 Roger G6CKR > On 14/02/12 22:54, Bernard Dekok wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I have read all the manuals that I could find. > > I have searched and read through the mail list. > > > > I have done all the configurations with all the variables that I could > > think of. > > I have even cleared all my lists. > > > > And still I cannot get Gmail to handle my outgoing mail via my server. > > (And yes, POP3 is enabled.) > > $smtpauthlevel = 2 > > $smtptlsuser=? (Do I need a special user account for this with Gmail ?) > > @ = \@ > > $smtptlspass = ? (Do I need a special one from Gmail ?) > > $smtptlsport = 587 (also tried 465) > > GRRRRR > > > > Is there another ISP that works well for the server ? > > Please help ? > > > > KC9SGV > > > > Ps BTW, I think all of this could be easier for the average guy if their > > was a UI (with dropdown tips) for the server like what flDigi has. > > Many of the potential semantic mistakes could be averted that way. > > >