can i get phpBB to use gmail?

[nin_freak_]

i've had my forums up for a while now, but i really need the email feature, and a lot of ISPs and other email providers seem to block messages from my ip, since it's private, and they think it's spam, so i've treid setting up the SMPT function to use an external mail source, but they all have problems with authentication no working. i'd like to get gmail working with it, but when i try it says this:

[adaptr]

If sending mail through your ISP takes 7 hours (hard to believe, actually) and you pay them money for your account, I would take it up with them.
Meaning kick them until they fix it.

This sort of non-service is unacceptable anywhere in the world.
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[nin_freak_]

i don't use them for email, i use gmail, i just have the ability to get an account with them because they are my isp, i could care less about their email

edit: i know gmail uses weird ports, but i can't find where i would set this in my config, or even in the code, does anyone know?

[Gatta]

It's a problem with GMail needing to use SMTP/TLS. See if there's a "secure connection" option in phpBB.

[xgregx]

Most of the time, out going smtp is blocked on residential accounts. I couldn't send mail outside my network using Cox. That was using a sendmail server. Some mail() functions in scripts would work. But it's probably because smtp traffic on port 25 is blocked, unless you are connecting to thier mail server.

[nobspangle]

The problem as Gatta has said is that gmail requires you to use tls, I'm pretty sure that there is no option in phpbb to use tls to talk to the smtp server. Your best bet would be to run a local mail system that can talk ssl and use that to forward the mail via gmail or send it directly.

[Fitzsimmons]

If you're going to go to the trouble to run a local mail system, why not just send out the mail straight from that instead of forwarding it to gmail?