On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Anthony Tai <jicholatai@gmail.com> wrote:
@Odhiambo,
I have a device that uses the GSM network to send out emails to assigned users. The software is such that you simply enter the smtp server, username and password and indicate 2 recipient email addresses.
The firmware assumption is that the smtp server is using port 25. That is why I cannot use smtp.gmail.com. Google help online shows that one can use aspmx.l.google.com. If you set this up on outlook, it works. Put the same configuration on the device and nothing is sent.
I dropped the email host @Alex from google so that I can use the mail.domain.com because it is set by default to port 25 and this works.
I was going to suggest that you setup your own SMTP server to achieve the desired result. However, I am afraid of one thing regarding your use of mail.domain.com: Your devices use the GSM network and I do assume they get dynamic IPs. I must ask how you handle the relay on mail.domain.com because I already feel it is an Open Relay sans ASMTP measures! And I know you cannot ask safaricom/airtel to give you what their whole subnet that they assign to GSM devices so that you can relay for the whole blocks. That is another suicide! Comment on that please. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler.