MailEnable - Configuring TLS for secure SMTP (Gmail)

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Published on 2010-11-18T10:02:33Z Indexed on 2011/01/03 21:55 UTC
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I have the latest version of MailEnable Pro installed on a new server that I'm setting up. Sending & receiving works fine with a new email account that I have set up, however I am now trying to configure GMail to use the mailserver for outgoing SMTP.

I've done the following so far:

  • Creating a self-cert SSL certficiate
  • Ticked "Enable TLS" on the General tab of the SMTP connector properties
  • Ticked "Send using TLS if remote server supports it" on the Outbound tab of the SMTP connector properties
  • Selected the new self-cert SSL certificate on the SSL tab of the localhost server properties.
  • Given permissions to IME_System on the new certificate

However, Gmail is still giving me the following error:

Authentication failed. Please check your username/password. [Server response: 454 TLS not available due to temporary reason code(454) ]

I'm trying to connect on port 25, (someone told me you can still do this and you dont have to connect on 465). Is this right? Or do I need to tell MailEnable to use port 465?

Am I missing something?

Thanks,

Chris.

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