Sunday, April 24, 2005

Need An SMTP Server? Use Gmail

A lot of companies block outbound traffic on port 25 (SMTP). Why? Computers infected with viruses, worms, trojan horses, etc. typically uses SMTP to propagate. If you use a POP client for your personal email this can be irritating. What to do? Use your Gmail account. Set your POP client to route outbound mail to smtp.google.com with port 465 and SSL enabled and use your Gmail login credentials. (Via greghughes.net)
posted by Bob at 4/24/2005 05:20:00 PM  | | digg | del.icio.us | reddit