I have a client who uses gmail sendmail on the server to get nightly status reports, and to flag when certain data gets updated. It's a minimal number of emails (<50 a week) and all internal, but critical. Gmail just changed their policy to no longer allow "less secure clients" to send emails, whic…

I have used office 365 (which still supports SMTP) for programmatic emails and also my own Linux server. Both options have worked great for a long time.

Thanks. IT for the district won’t allow that.

how did you try if it works from FMServer? I had issues and couldn't get the test succeeding within the admin console after gmail changes at beginning of Jun 2022, but to my surprise the server sent me an email error notification later and since then it works again.

Thanks @OliverBarrett Office 365 worked fine (just made a free account and it works like a charm). @FileKraft Odd... if it breaks again I recommend Office 365. It worked great. It just stopped sending emails last week from two of my applications (hosted with 2 different hosts)...

That's great! The OAUTH2 stuff is too much pain for too little reward (for example, manual user token entry from browser, etc.). In my view, it's more important to encrypt the email end-to-end. With strong passwords, 2FA, etc., and RSA techniques applied, I think SMTP will be a good solution for a …

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See SMTP Server for FMS suggestions - #19 by menno for information on how to still use Google.

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