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Use Google hosted email to send email from dotnetnuke site hosted on hostgator

I am attempting to configure our dotnetnuke site to be able to send basic messages (things like lost password, newsletters, etc) to our users.

According to all the documentation I have found I have set up the site correctly
SMTP Server and port:smtp.gmail.com:587
Connection Limit:1
Max Idle Time:0
SMTP Authentication:Basic
SMTP Username:username@weburl.com
SMTP Password:password

I also created a smtp relay in google apps with comprehensive mail storage.

Is there something I am missing? Below is the error message I receive from logs, if I understand what I am seeing this is the hosting service I am using correct?

2014-10-21 19:20:54,310 [PSS16][Thread:16][ERROR] DotNetNuke.Services.Exceptions.Exceptions - System.Net.Mail.SmtpException: Failure sending mail. ---> System.Net.WebException: Unable to connect to the remote server ---> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions 74.125.198.109:587
   at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.DoConnect(EndPoint endPointSnapshot, SocketAddress socketAddress)
   at System.Net.ServicePoint.ConnectSocketInternal(Boolean connectFailure, Socket s4, Socket s6, Socket& socket, IPAddress& address, ConnectSocketState state, IAsyncResult asyncResult, Exception& exception)
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at System.Net.ServicePoint.GetConnection(PooledStream PooledStream, Object owner, Boolean async, IPAddress& address, Socket& abortSocket, Socket& abortSocket6)
   at System.Net.PooledStream.Activate(Object owningObject, Boolean async, GeneralAsyncDelegate asyncCallback)
   at System.Net.PooledStream.Activate(Object owningObject, GeneralAsyncDelegate asyncCallback)
   at System.Net.ConnectionPool.GetConnection(Object owningObject, GeneralAsyncDelegate asyncCallback, Int32 creationTimeout)
   at System.Net.Mail.SmtpConnection.GetConnection(ServicePoint servicePoint)
   at System.Net.Mail.SmtpTransport.GetConnection(ServicePoint servicePoint)
   at System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient.GetConnection()
   at System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient.Send(MailMessage message)
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient.Send(MailMessage message)
   at DotNetNuke.Services.Mail.Mail.SendMailInternal(MailMessage mailMessage, String subject, String body, MailPriority priority, MailFormat bodyFormat, Encoding bodyEncoding, IEnumerable`1 attachments, String smtpServer, String smtpAuthentication, String smtpUsername, String smtpPassword, Boolean smtpEnableSSL)
Solution

  • I have my settings at:

    smtp.gmail.com:587

    1

    0

    Basic

    SSL Enabled

    username

    password

    That seems to work fine for my sites using Google's mail services.