> > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:01 AM, MB Software Solutions, LLC < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Has anyone successfully configured BLAT to work for a gMail account? >>
I don't think that's going to happen. Gmail requires TLS/SSL (http://lifehacker.com/111166/how-to-use-gmail-as-your-smtp-server) and BLAT isn't configured to support that. Other big providers like Yahoo! have the same kind of requirements. I'm sure there's some long and involved convoluted reason why you can't configure your app just to use the local ISP SMTP server. We've set up a couple apps using BLAT (or West Wind's IPTools) and we just supply an .INI file with settings that the client (or we) configure. Obviously, the idea has some problems scaling, supporting a couple hundred installations would be taxing. I've used GMail by configuring a local sendmail instance to use them as a smart host, but it involves a Linux box and setting up OpenSSL and downloading and configuring certificates. If you've got an app that you're sending out for wide distribution and you don't want to set up each and every client individually, you could considering renting a box/virtual server at your hosting provider of choice, and sending all of the mail from the clients to the mail server you host and configure. It's a non-trivial solution, but it leave you in control and could be set up for a few hundred dollars a year. Remember, "MAPI Bad, SMTP good" isn't just snarky, it's a statement of Best Practices. Using automation to Outlook, ActiveX Email, Collaborative Data Objects, or whatever, is just leaving your app at the mercy of the next MSFT service pack that decides to change the way it works or block a service as a security measure. Offloading fundamental network services to the standardized protocols and servers designed to run those services is using the Internet in the way it was intended. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
