• Relaying through Gmail -- suggestions?

    From Sam Alexander@VERT/BAUDOT to All on Saturday, March 26, 2022 05:36:53
    So I've racked my brain on this for a few hours now, so until I go further here I am. Trying to relay SMTP through my gmail account. Created an app specific password and here's what I have in sbbs.ini for email specific to smtp:
    TLSSubmissionPort = 465
    SMTPPort = 25
    RelayServer = smtp.gmail.com
    RelayPort 587
    RelayUsername = ****@gmail.com
    RelayPassword = **********
    Options = ALLOW_POP3 | USE_SUBMISSION_PORT | TLS_SUBMISSION | TLS_POP3 | RELAY_TX

    In the logs it's giving a 530 "5.7.0" error which per Google is "Must issue a STARTTLS command first". I've read that Sync does support STARTTLS, but what am I missing? Thanks --

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Sam Alexander on Saturday, March 26, 2022 12:16:52
    Re: Relaying through Gmail -- suggestions?
    By: Sam Alexander to All on Sat Mar 26 2022 05:36 am

    So I've racked my brain on this for a few hours now, so until I go further here I am. Trying to relay SMTP through my gmail account. Created an app specific password and here's what I have in sbbs.ini for email specific to smtp: TLSSubmissionPort = 465
    SMTPPort = 25
    RelayServer = smtp.gmail.com
    RelayPort 587
    RelayUsername = ****@gmail.com
    RelayPassword = **********
    Options = ALLOW_POP3 | USE_SUBMISSION_PORT | TLS_SUBMISSION | TLS_POP3 | RELAY_TX

    In the logs it's giving a 530 "5.7.0" error which per Google is "Must issue a STARTTLS command first". I've read that Sync does support STARTTLS, but what am I missing? Thanks --


    Yes, Synchronet will issue a STARTTLS command when sending via SMTP.

    You do appear to be lacking any of the RELAY_AUTH options, so that your mail won't be authenticating you with the server and that seems like a likely problem.
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  • From Sam Alexander@VERT/BAUDOT to Digital Man on Tuesday, March 29, 2022 17:50:01
    Re: Relaying through Gmail -- suggestions?
    By: Digital Man to Sam Alexander on Sat Mar 26 2022 12:16 pm

    You do appear to be lacking any of the RELAY_AUTH options, so that your mail won't be authenticating you with the server and that seems like a likely problem.

    Yeah I was missing that, thanks .. Added and mail is relaying through my Gmail account now, but every message has my GMail as From instead of the BBS EMail Address. I'm not sure if this is on the Sync side or Gmail side, so that's my next thing to figure out... but at least it's going out now.

    Thanks.

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  • From Sam Alexander@VERT/BAUDOT to Digital Man on Tuesday, March 29, 2022 17:55:53
    Re: Relaying through Gmail -- suggestions?
    By: Sam Alexander to Digital Man on Tue Mar 29 2022 05:50 pm

    You do appear to be lacking any of the RELAY_AUTH options, so that your mail won't be authenticating you with the server and that seems like a likely problem.

    Yeah I was missing that, thanks .. Added and mail is relaying through my Gmail account now, but every message has my GMail as From instead of the BBS EMail Address. I'm
    not sure if this is on the Sync side or Gmail side, so that's my next thing to figure out... but at least it's going out now.

    I think I found my answer, found an article saying Google uses the main email account unless it's using Google Workspace. I do have a legacy Workspace account which I'm dropping soon since they're dropping the free version in a few months... so guess I'll try the Spectrum SMTP server next.

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  • From Tracker1@VERT/TRN to Sam Alexander on Friday, April 01, 2022 22:24:55
    On 3/29/22 16:55, Sam Alexander wrote:
    Yeah I was missing that, thanks .. Added and mail is relaying through
    my Gmail account now, but every message has my GMail as From instead
    of the BBS EMail Address. I'm not sure if this is on the Sync side
    or Gmail side, so that's my next thing to figure out... but at least
    it's going out now.

    I think I found my answer, found an article saying Google uses the
    main email account unless it's using Google Workspace. I do have a
    legacy Workspace account which I'm dropping soon since they're
    dropping the free version in a few months... so guess I'll try the
    Spectrum SMTP server next.

    You might also give Sendgrid a try, I've been pretty happy with them,
    the free tier is probably good enough for most small BBS use. I'm using
    the paid tier though, since I'm also relaying my regular mail server's outbound mail through them too.
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