Talk:Email setup gmail

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Chel Ramsey admin@theseventhsungame.net created this page and hopes this helps others. Chris Collman is a gmail fan, did a bit for formatting but has not tried it out. --Chris collman 06:20, 26 July 2008 (CDT)

Hey guys ;)

Thanks for making the page for me.

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=65156&parent=423064

Is the original forum post.

Good luck!

-Chel Ramsey www.theseventhsungame.net

Problem sending messages using Gmail as SMTP

I've got Moodle setup as described on this page using Google Apps for Education as an SMTP server. However, this doesn't work properly as Google forbid the altering of the "From" or "Reply To" header in emails except where explicitly permitted (e.g. The main system email address would have to request permission from every single other user on the system to send as them). From what I have been told by our Google Apps rep, there is nothing that can be done about this. This means that any emails sent from a user are received with a Reply To address of the main moodle email address not the original sender. For this reason I would suggest that Gmail is not suitable for use with Moodle, but if I'm missing anything obvious, please let me know. Ian McNaught