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To send mail from a machine using gmail smtp server see this tutorial : http://www.manu-j.com/blog/wordpress-exim4-ubuntu-gmail-smtp/75/ I've just ran into a problem with this config. I've created a gmail account just for this purpose because you need to set the gmail account password in exim4 configuration file on each machine. I didn't want to use my personnal gmail account for obvious reasons. As it's a technical account, I never log into it through http://gmail.com web interface. Which lead to the account beeing disabled by gmail. As a result, all mail that exim4 tryed to send gives this warning message in /var/log/exim4/mainlog : R=send_via_gmail T=gmail_smtp defer (-53): retry time not reached for any host To solve this issue, you need to Login to http://gmail.com with the account you use with exim4. It will ask you to login a second time with a captcha... do so login on all of your machine that use this technique and issue the following command : sudo exim -qff ...

When I run on Windows XP, I've my standart gmail address opened in firefox (and 3 other google apps gmail), and a developper gmail adress (which subscribe many mailling list). Now that I'm on kubuntu (at home), I needed an extra browser to do the same, and it's obviously Konqueror... but what's sad is that it's a poor plain html interface that you get with gmail. So I switched the user agent to Firefox, but I get a blank page. I've tryed with Safari (as it uses webkit, the render engine of Konqueror) and it works...except that I need to use a wheel click to make a regular clic. Everything else work fine (except you don't have rich text editing, but maybe you don't have it on safari as well...)

Mail administration is boring and time consuming... It continuously takes more importance in every days exchange and the loss of one mail can have huge consequence : What ! You didn't bought the bread ! I sent a mail so you don't forget... it's enough... I divorce ! :op Nowdays, email takes a huge amount of space, that you need to backup... So we decided to migrate our client to google Apps : 7 servers to handle your mail, 25Go of space, a simple and very powerfull web interface with the ability to still use imap. You'll find here how I set-up Google Apps Premium for the domain 123monsite.com. You should plan this operation at the beginning of the weekend to minimize any potential issue. First I get there : http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/fr/admins/editions.html I click on "Inscription" on the Premier Edition. Then I give the domain name : 123monsite.com Then I fill the form As it's for a company, I set the VTA reference of the company to avoid to pay VT...