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Comment on Using Blat, Stunnel and Gmail Together by RAG

RAG — Fri, 14 May 2010 10:47:19 +0000

Jeff,
I was looking for some help to send email using gmail and blat and found excellent help from this site. Tons of thanks for putting this together.

Comment on Using Blat, Stunnel and Gmail Together by joe

joe — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:02:25 +0000

Comment on Using Blat, Stunnel and Gmail Together by joe

joe — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:00:09 +0000

10/10
worked without a hitch – your explanations reflects serious simplifying intelligence. i use mine to send to my phone’s email number (xxxxxxxxxx@vtext.com using command line.. e.g. from mIRC (a chat program).. this way other people can text me without knowing my phone number, or maybe i’ll set up utorrent or the like to tell me important computer events. gotta stay excessively attuned to my computer, yknow! =|

thanks, tho =D

Comment on Using Blat, Stunnel and Gmail Together by Ant

Ant — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:14:00 +0000

Awesome Brian, thanks this has helped me a great deal today!
Just a note, is there a typo in your article where you install the blat server? I don’t see the -p for the profile name for blat, only two hyphens at the end of that command/instruction :
-pw gmailpassword – – gmailsmtp
just wondering.
Thanks
Anthony

Comment on Using Blat, Stunnel and Gmail Together by Brian

Brian — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:43:41 +0000

Jeff,

Sorry guess I wasn’t as clear as I could have been.
I was just pointing out the odd occurrence that in your actual example what appear to be two identical hyphen characters are actually two different characters. The first is hex 96, the second hex 2D. 2D is a hyphen.

Depending on program you can actually see a difference between them.
In Word for example.
And if you copy&paste run your example you will see that part of the
output is
retry û time(s)
instead of
retry 1 time(s)

Regards,
Brian

Comment on Using Blat, Stunnel and Gmail Together by Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:01:41 +0000

Thanks, Brian.
I’m using the “- -” characters as defaults. If you check out the blat install syntax (http://www.blat.net/examples/install&profile.html), and look at the last example on that page, you’ll see those characters mean we’re using the default number of tries to send and port number.
Granted.. I later specified a port. You wouldn’t have to do that. I just realized I had to on the server I was on and that’s why it’s in my example.
Glad it worked for you!

Comment on Using Blat, Stunnel and Gmail Together by Brian

Brian — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:07:30 +0000

Jeff,

Thank you very much for your excellent article. I followed it carefully and it worked first time.

One odd thing I noticed is that in the “blat -install” example the gmailpassword – -
part has what look like two hypens but they are two different characters.

They do work… blat likes them.

Regards,
Brian

Comment on Using Blat, Stunnel and Gmail Together by Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:19:39 +0000

Marcy.. You’re making it too hard. Look in Program Files after you install Stunnel. It’s all right there.. Install the Service, Run it and then just click on ‘Run Stunnel’. You used to have to manually configure everything with Stunnel. Now it’s pretty seamless. They’ve done a great job improving it.

Comment on Using Blat, Stunnel and Gmail Together by Marcy

Marcy — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:37:49 +0000

Hi. I’m trying to make this work but I’m confused on how to get Stunnel going. I downloaded it and installed. Is it just running now?

Comment on Ol’ Blue Eyes by Peaches

Peaches — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:57:58 +0000

Wow! He does look a lot like me