Coldfusion Administrator mail settings for gmail

[tquill]

I recently upgraded to an SSD and started fresh on my development computer and after setting CF up again... I can't seem to get gmail working in cfadmin.  I'm using the following settings:

Mail server: smtp.gmail.com

user name: myuse...@mydomain.com

password: mypassword

Server port: 465

Enable SSL: Checked

Everything else is default, and I'm getting this error in the mail log file:

javax.mail.MessagingException: Exception reading response; nested exception is: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target

Does anyone have any suggestions?  I downloaded the most recent java version but that didn't help.  I've been reading online that it may have something to do with not having the right certificate... but I'm not sure the best way to fix that.

I really appreciate any help.

[Andy Bellenie]

Does it work without SSL and using port 25?

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[tquill]

If I change it to port 25 and remove SSL.  The log shows the following error:

javax.mail.MessagingException: Could not connect to SMTP host: smtp.gmail.com, port: 25, response: 421

[Chris Peters]

Try it with port 587, SSL off, and TLS on.

Those are old settings, but they work for me.

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[tquill]

I think I tried that already, but I will double check when I get home.

This is likely the dumbest question ever... but do I need to setup the
google mx records in my DNS manager on my local machine to get this to
work? For some reason, I was thinking that was only necessary if I
were trying to setup my local machine as the mail server (rather than
using google)? I know I'm a newb, so I apologize for such questions.
I know I had done that on my previous harddrive, but I didn't know if
it was necessary.

On Apr 19, 8:15 am, Chris Peters <chris.pet...@liquifusion.com> wrote:
> Try it with port 587, SSL off, and TLS on.
>
> Those are old settings, but they work for me.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:45 PM, tquill <toddaquil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I recently upgraded to an SSD and started fresh on my development computer
> > and after setting CF up again... I can't seem to get gmail working in
> > cfadmin.  I'm using the following settings:
>
> > Mail server: smtp.gmail.com

> > user name: myusern...@mydomain.com

> > password: mypassword
>
> > Server port: 465
> > Enable SSL: Checked
>
> > Everything else is default, and I'm getting this error in the mail log
> > file:
>
> > javax.mail.MessagingException: Exception reading response; nested
> > exception is: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException:
> > sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed:
> > sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find
> > valid certification path to requested target
>
> > Does anyone have any suggestions?  I downloaded the most recent java
> > version but that didn't help.  I've been reading online that it may have
> > something to do with not having the right certificate... but I'm not sure
> > the best way to fix that.
>
> > I really appreciate any help.
>
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[Chris Peters]

You shouldn't need to set up MX records to send SMTP email through Gmail.

[tquill]

Ok well this took me an embarrassingly amount of time to fix, but I found the problem.

My avast virus scanner was blocking this from working apparently.  In avast (I'm using program version 8.01493), go to settings, troubleshooting, and add smtp.gmail.com to ignored addresses in the "Web" section.

As for cfadmin settings,

I'm using server port 465, and both SSL and TSL are checked.

[Tim Holt]

Thanks for posting this.  I recently installed Avast and was wondering why my Coldfusion Admin mail settings suddenly stopped working after a few years of development.

In Avast, you can temporarily turn off protection to test the Mail Server Settings in CFAdmin.  If the connection is verified, you can then look in Avast for the setting to shut off that feature.

I turned it off via Settings-> Active Protection -> Mail Shield -> Customize and Unchecked Scan Outbound mail (SMTP).  Then I was able to connect to smpt.gmail.com using TLS and port 587.

Also, a tool such as smtp4dev will allow you to use Mail Server localhost on port 25 to get around smpt.gmail.com and Avast on your development machine.