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echo: rberrypi
to: MARTIN
from: THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHER
date: 2019-10-19 08:09:00
subject: Re: Pi, exim4 and google

On 18/10/2019 23:37, MArtin wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 23:20:46 -0000 (UTC), Roger Bell_West
>  wrote:
>
>> On 2019-10-17, MArtin wrote:
>>> Does anyone have any ideas on what google have changed and how to fix
>>> it?
>>
>> Google randomly breaks mail from the real world of SMTP all the time.
>> As long as other gmail users and outlook.com users can get their mail
>> in, they're happy; trying to send reliably from anything else is a
>> generally waste of effort.
>>
>> That said, sending via an ISP's smarthost may have a better chance of
>> success.
>
> Unfortunately the reason I was using google was because configuration
> with the ISP server proved too difficult originally. Having spent all
> day trying to configure to use the ISP servers and trawling their
> support forums it seems I am not alone in having difficulty with the
> isp servers and the previous advice has been google is easier to
> configure and get working!

set up exim on your own virtual server out there in internet land.

The rules of authenticated email are getting quite complex.

That at least allows you to control both ends of te smnart relay link to
your client.


If you run Imap it also allows you global cloud access to your email.

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