[kdepim-users] GMail using SMTP in KMail

Ingo Klöcker kloecker at kde.org
Mon Apr 21 21:17:37 BST 2008


On Monday 21 April 2008, John Phillips wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:21:04 +0530 Shrikant Navelkar
>
> <shrikant.navelkar at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 1.  SMTP : smtp.gmail.com
> > 2.  Port : 25
> > 3.  Check "Server Requires Authentication"
> > 4.  Encryption : TLS
> > 5.  Authentication : PLAIN
>
> It is working now - for how long?
>
> However I found using TLS KMail gave me an error message that the
> server claims to use TLS but could not be negotiated.
>
> I changed to SSL and seems to work for present.
>
> Port 25 is interesting;  Google recommend 465 or 587 IIRC?  I have to
> use 465 to get smtp to work.

Port 25 is the standard port for SMTP (without encryption and with TLS).

Port 465 is the standard port for SMTP (with SSL).


Regards,
Ingo
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