{"id":78,"date":"2009-04-20T01:54:03","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T01:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/support\/how-to-send-email-reports-via-smtpgmailcom\/"},"modified":"2019-11-13T09:18:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T09:18:27","slug":"how-to-send-email-reports-via-smtpgmailcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/how-to-send-email-reports-via-smtpgmailcom","title":{"rendered":"How to send email reports via smtp.gmail.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi all,<\/p>\n

I was recently asked – if you want to receive email reports in BackupAssist, but don’t have access to a SMTP server, how can you do it?<\/p>\n

A possible solution is to use Gmail. You can use smtp.gmail.com to send emails to different domains.<\/p>\n

To set this all up:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Register for your free Gmail account<\/li>\n
  2. In BackupAssist, set up the email server parameters (from the Global options tab) as follows:
    \n

    Emails come from this person: your.account@gmail.com
    \nSMTP Server: smtp.gmail.com
    \nPort 465
    \nConnection type: SSL\/TLS
    \nUsername: your.account@gmail.com
    \nPassword: your.password<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n

  3. For each job that you want to send out notifications, add a Report Notification to send to your designated email account. It can be on a different domain to gmail.com.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Note: when I tried this process last year, I recall I had to enable POP forwarding to get the smtp server to allow the connection. However, today when I tried on my account, I disabled POP forwarding and was still able to send.<\/p>\n

    Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Hi all, I was recently asked – if you want to receive email reports in BackupAssist, but don’t have access to a SMTP server, how can you do it? A possible solution is to use Gmail. You can use smtp.gmail.com to send emails to different domains. 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