Re: GMAIL

> I happly use blat for most of my email broadcasts, but It DOES NOT work 
> using my GMAIL account.
>
> -f [email protected] -server smtp.gmail.com -port 587 -u [email protected] -pw 
> mypassword

The reason it does not work with Gmail on port 587 is that Google requires a 
secure sockets layer (SSL) connection, which means the traffic between your 
computer and Google must be encrypted.  Blat does not support SSL on its 
own, instead there is a very good, free, and well maintained program called 
stunnel (from stunnel.org) which does this very thing -- its whole purpose 
is to provide SSL and TLS encryption between computers.

Here is a snippet of my stunnel.conf, showing Gmail.  To use stunnel, with 
my configuration below, you would tell Blat the server is at 127.0.0.1, and 
the port number is 27, as identified with the "accept" statement.  I chose 
27 for ease of remembering, and to ensure it does not conflict with any 
other program.  You are free to use the configuration below and modify it to 
your own needs, but make sure to tell Blat which port number to use based on 
what you have in your own stunnel.conf file.  The server IP address of 
127.0.0.1 is necessary, this reserved IP address is "local host", meaning 
that any program which attempts to use this IP will connect to the computer 
on which the program is running.

CAfile = cert.pem
cert = client.pem
client = yes
RNDfile = .rnd
sslVersion = TLSv1
fips = no
output = stunnel.log

[gmail smtp]
accept = 27
connect = smtp.gmail.com:587
protocol = smtp