gmail smtp relay

Tue, May 6, 2008

i’m finally sending my email through gmail’s smtp service from my roaming laptop – i found a simple ready-made configuration and just used it.

i used to send email through one of our smtp servers on the vpn, but since i’m frequently using gmail’s web interface for personal mail, i ended up not having in my gmail account my outgoing messages sent through gmail’s web interface, but obviously not those i was sending through the smtp server on the vpn.

of course leaving all that stuff on gmail’s storage is far from ideal, but this is only until i can set up a proper email archive on one of my personal virtual machines – and all the important stuff is gpg-encrypted anyway.