PDW Email

[smythie]

Hi, has anyone got the email side of PDW working? there is bugger all support for it and i can't get it working.

Trying to send to a gmail account.
smtp host - smtp.gmail.com
to - myaddress@gmail.com
from - ????????????? what goes here?????????

do i need to enable authentication or change port?

Thanks for any help

Gary
VK3LCD

[OIC_Napster]

both, put this as the from....

"PWD" pwd@messaging.nl

and put your email address on the right

Email
Password

it should work from there

[smythie]

ok, just to clarify everything, ihave done the following:

enable email notification,

setting - all messages port - 25
SMTP HOST: smtp.gmail.com USERNAME: *****@gmail.com
TO: *****@gmail.com PASSWORD: ************
FROM: "PDW" pdw@messaging.nl

charset: western europe

in the MONITOR WINDOW i get

HELO (null)

HELO 127.0.0.1

HELO 127.0.0.1

HELO 127.0.0.1



I'm pretty sure 127.0.0.1 is the ip of the local machine but not sure what to do now.
sessions and errors are in the thousands but emails and last error are zero.

Still not working.

BTW cant remember if there is any reference to emailing messages during PDW installation? ie, do you have to tell it you want to email when you install the program.

Thanks

Gary

[Phil]

there is no installation for PDW it is a portable program. as for the machine ip give the word localhost a try if not i will give it a go on my machine and see how i go with it

[eggcarton]

setting - all messages port - 25
SMTP HOST: smtp.gmail.com USERNAME: *****@gmail.com
TO: *****@gmail.com PASSWORD: ************
FROM: "PDW" pdw@messaging.nl
Gary

Try using your ISP SMTP server instead of gmail for a few reasons. You can still send it to your gmail account though.

• Gmail does not use port 25, instead it uses 465 and 587
• Gmail uses SSL, and from what I can see PDW doesn't support it
• Many residential ISP plans limit port 25 to to only the ISP provided email

[smythie]

well, i ended up creating another address with my isp and all is going fine, thanks to everyone for your help.

Gary

VK3LCD

[jimmyc]

I understand that you have resolved this problem, however if anyone else wants to use PDW to email direct to a Gmail address and they have a Gmail account (doesn't have to be the same address they are trying to send it to, just as long as it is a Gmail - Gmail email)

SMTP Host: gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com (Port 25)
To: The target gmail email address
From: Your gmail email address
Do not enable authentication.

If you don't seem to receive it check the spam box, it may get registered at SPAM the first time through.

[Gearbox92]

well, i ended up creating another address with my isp and all is going fine, thanks to everyone for your help.

Gary

VK3LCD

Could you show us what settings and what host you used to get it to work? Thanks

[Boort8720]

There has been a beta version of PDW with SSL support released by our hero, Discriminator.

Read more here

Regards,

[comport1]

Hey Folks

I have found any easy and simple solution for using Gmail (Google Email) for Email Notifications from PDW. You use a dedicated email address from gmail, and send it to yoursellf! And guess what? It does not need SSL support or even Authentication enabled. Check out the screenshot below, and it's obvious, change "your.username" to your actual username!

Only Settings required:

SMTP Host: aspmx.l.google.com
To & From: your.username@gmail.com
Port: 25

And thats it!!



I will also post this on other posts in regards to email support.

Cheers

[comport1]

Ok, so there is now another way of doing this, with the latest version of PDW 3.2b01. An update/change to my previous post really...

I have found any easy and simple solution for using Gmail (Google Email) for Email Notifications from PDW. You use a dedicated email address from gmail, and send it to yoursellf to another or same Gmail account. In this example, i send it to an Outlook Account. Check out the screenshot below, and it's obvious, change "username" to your actual username!

Settings required:

SMTP Host: smtp.gmail.com
To & From: your.username@gmail.com
Port: 465
SSL: Ticked
Enable Authentication
Username
Password


And thats it!!

PDW_EMAIL.jpg

Cheers