Posted by Steven_NC on October 19, 2009 at 1:00pm
Google can act as the mail server for domains. Is anyone using this with a Drupal site? How well is it working? Does it work well with notifications? Newsletters? Are there any gotchas?
Thanks
Steven
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Gmail sender limits
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=22839
I found Gmail unusable as a sender smart host. I used esmtp - http://esmtp.sourceforge.net/ with smtp.gmail.com.
I bit the bullet and installed postfix as my MTA on the same host and life has been good.
Small and infrequent but annoying issues with gmail as a receiver.
Thanks for the reply. My
Thanks for the reply. My reading of the Google Mail docs indicated there may be problems, but first hand knowledge is always better. I don't have the chops to manage a mail system but will find a good managed system.
Gmail Postfix
By all means, use gmail hosted accounts for incoming email and "normal" messaging. The free accounts are usually better than most things you can pay for. Outgoing mail is a different matter. Postix works out of the box for outgoing mail from localhost. On many hosts you will run into problems with other MTAs rejecting your traffic. Your ISP may provide an SMTP server which you can configure as a relay with appropriate auth.
This won't work on shared virtual hosting accounts normally but your web host may provide an SMTP server. ESMTP probably works in user space (haven't tried that). You may want to consider a VPS account or relations with a more cooperative webhost.
sending mails from drupal using google or gmail
I had a problem trying to send out mail from my drupal site, I am using Cpanel, so what I did was to change the MX record on Cpanel to smtp.google.com and Voila! it sent the mail.
Hope it helps some one.