One Alert - Can't send email to self

[SG]

I see there's a feature to send an alert to your email.

When I try to set this up it comes up with error message Socket error # 11001 Host not found.  It says SMTP needs to be set up.  I don't know what this means other than it has something to do with email.  I tried smtp.google.com port 25 (and another port # I found online) but it still does not work.

I use google email.  I don't download to a client.  What do I need to do?

thanks

[qhamel]

I use gmail as well. I finally got it to work using a small program
(service) called stunnel that runs on my computer and talks to the
gmail server.

Here is a more detailed explanation on how to configure use MLO with
Gmail:
GMail as your SMTP server
GMail requires secure connections
If you want to configure MLO to use GMail as its SMTP server, you
will
find that currently MLO does not support secure (TLS/STARTTLS)
connections for email. To work around this, you will need to run
another program (stunnel) to "wrap" MLO's connection to GMail. MLO
will then connect to stunnel, which will connect to gmail.
Download / Configure stunnel
Download the latest windows Stunnell installer and run the installer.
Install stunnel to the directory C:\Stunnel.
Inside the c:\Stunnel directory create a text file called
gmailsmtp.txt with the following content (8 lines).
; SMTP configuration for Gmail
output = SMTPgmail.log
taskbar = no
cert = stunnel.pem
client = yes
[ssmtp]
accept = 10.0.0.1:8025
connect = smtp.gmail.com:465
Change 10.0.0.1 to your computer's IP address or name. Do not use
"localhost" or 127.0.0.1 as that won't work. The best way is to go to
Control Panel and click on "System" and click on the Computer name
tab. Highlight and copy the full computer name for your PC.
Open a command prompt (cmd.exe) and navigate to the stunnel install
directory (CD C:\Stunnel). Enter the following 2 commands to run
stunnel as a Windows Service:
stunnel -install gmailsmtp.txt
net start stunnel
Now Configure MLO email settings
Now you need to configure MLO Email Settings to connect to stunnel.
Your SMTP server: Your computer name you just got off of the computer
name tab
Port: 8025
Check My server requires Authentication
Userid: your gmail address (john...@gmail.com)
Password: your gmail password
Now press the "Test" button. If you configured everything correctly,
a
test email will be sent. This test email will also show up inside
your
gmail account in the "Sent Mail" folder.

[YoDee]

Using stunnel looks ingenious. However two issues:

1. I run an instance of MLO on my office laptop .. IT folks won't allow installation of something like stunnel on my laptop.
2. Given instructions include giving away my personal gmail account password within the setup process. Cannot think of giving away and storing password like this.

How do I resolve, then?

Regards

Yogesh