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Title: gmail SendMessage
Post by: byteman on June 05, 2015, 07:15:08 AM

Running HG on a Raspberry Pi B+
Trying to test gmail SendMessage

Settings:
Email Address: <myemail>@gmail.com
SMTP Mail Server Address: smtp.gmail.com
SMTP username (optional):<myemail>@gmail.com
SMTP password (optional):************
SMTP Mail Server port: 587
SMTP Mail Server use SSL (TRUE or FALSE): TRUE

Created a c# test program with the following line:

Code: [Select]

Net.SendMessage("<myemail>@gmail.com", "Subject here", "This is the message text." );Compiled and selected: Action / Run

...and I get nothing.  If I trap for an error, there is no exception.  SendMessage returns "False".  I've searched through the forum and my gmail setup seems to be consistent with what I see in the forum.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Title: Re: gmail SendMessage
Post by: kevin1 on June 05, 2015, 01:20:26 PM

You mentioned searching forum, but I'll point to this thread, maybe it can help:
  http://www.homegenie.it/forum/index.php?topic=223.msg1911#msg1911 (http://www.homegenie.it/forum/index.php?topic=223.msg1911#msg1911)

You have the port that seems to be best.  Other than that, try removing "@gmail.com" from the username.

Title: Re: gmail SendMessage
Post by: byteman on June 05, 2015, 03:03:48 PM

Yes, I tried the "username" both ways (with and without the "@gmail".  Net.SendMessage returns False for either way.

Title: Re: gmail SendMessage
Post by: bkenobi on June 05, 2015, 04:53:56 PM

I struggled with setting up both gmail and Yahoo mail initially.  I believe in the end I had to set up something on the Yahoo mail server to allow for the RPi to connect.  I never got gmail to work reliably (if at all).

Title: Re: gmail SendMessage
Post by: byteman on June 05, 2015, 04:56:14 PM

Thanks - as I understand it, you must have a "paid" yahoo account ($19 per year) to use their smpt service remotely - is that your understanding?

Title: Re: gmail SendMessage
Post by: kevin1 on June 05, 2015, 05:42:02 PM

I have free yahoo mail and use it with HG.  I paid for it in the past, but not now.  I suspect with popularity of iphone/smartphone they made smtp access available for free.

Title: Re: gmail SendMessage
Post by: byteman on June 05, 2015, 06:17:05 PM

I can send email using my gmail account from the command line on my raspberry pi after setting up the ssmtp.conf file for gmail using the "mail" command.

But when I change the ssmtp.conf settings to use my yahoo account, it doesn't work.  Can't find any setting in yahoo.mail to make this work.

Thinking this shouldn't be so hard!

Title: Re: gmail SendMessage
Post by: bkenobi on June 06, 2015, 12:33:56 AM

I have never paid for yahoo or gmail.  I do not have a .conf file setup.  I did struggle with this for a couple weeks off and on.  I think the best info was provided by google.  This is the page I used for settings IIRC.

http://email.about.com/od/accessingyahoomail/f/Yahoo_Mail_SMTP_Settings.htm (http://email.about.com/od/accessingyahoomail/f/Yahoo_Mail_SMTP_Settings.htm)

Title: Re: gmail SendMessage
Post by: byteman on June 06, 2015, 05:22:51 AM

OK, I gave up on Yahoo.  Found this post:

[url=http://www.homegenie.it/forum/index.php?topic=466.msg2682#msg2682]http://www.homegenie.it/forum/index.php?topic=466.msg2682#msg2682 (http://www.homegenie.it/forum/index.php?topic=466.msg2682#msg2682)[/url]

Followed those instructions, restarted HG, and now gmail is working.

Thanks all for you help.