Ahari Posted February 13, 2013 Report Share Posted February 13, 2013 I am new to these forums, but have bumbled along with Retrospect for many years, just fiddling to get things to work. Since Windows 7 does not allow Retrospect to run "in the open" and you don't really know what is going on with the scripts, I am trying to set up Retrospect 8 to email me when there is a script failure or media request. I have entered in all the details for my Gmail account, but keep getting the following error when I try to send a test email: "Email notification failed: error -592 (invalid response from SMTP server)" Please can someone help me to get this working. I don't really know what I am doing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ahari Posted February 13, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2013 I fiddled a bit more and managed to get it to work using my ISP's smtp server! I am still confused as to why I can't get Gmail's smtp to work though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David W Lee Posted March 21, 2013 Report Share Posted March 21, 2013 Gmail normally requires SSL, which is now supported in Retrospect 8.1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tcouey Posted March 1, 2014 Report Share Posted March 1, 2014 How do you turn on SSL? Is it supposed to be automatic? Because with v8.5, using smtp.gmail.com as the server and my credentials filled in, I only ever get error -592 (invalid response from SMTP server). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scillonian Posted March 1, 2014 Report Share Posted March 1, 2014 SSL/TLS is on by default and Retrospect will initially try to connect securely and fall back to insecure if that fails. If the SSL/TLS settings are wrong and the SMTP server does not support insecure connections that email sending will fail. Have you tried entering "smtp.gmail.com:465" (without the quotes!) for the Gmail SMTP server? I believe that Retrospect defaults to port 587 for SSL/TLS connections but Gmail uses port 465. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tcouey Posted March 4, 2014 Report Share Posted March 4, 2014 That works. I didn't realize I had to specify the port that way (URL style). I thought there would've been a separate textbox in the dialog if non-standard ports were supported. The documentation (from what I found) didn't give any details on how to specify the port. Thanks for the help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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