[EAS] email configuration for Gmail?

[Cody Wilson]

@Alex - You'll be hard pressed to find appliances that support MAPI, since it requires licensing the protocol from Microsoft, and most of these EAS boxes run on some sort of Linux, Unix, or VxWorks.  That said, there should still be nothing stopping you from using your Exchange server as the mail transport. As long as your Exchange server is running SMTP (I've never managed an Exchange server that didn't run SMTP even with a anti-spam/security appliance in between it and the public Internet) and your EAS box is either on the same network, or can route to the Exchange server, there should be nothing stopping you from using your Exchange server as the mail server for CAP alerts.  

Keep in mind that if your Exchange server requires SMTP authentication, you'll either have to create an Exchange mailbox for your EAS appliance, or configure a receive connector that allows the IP address of the EAS appliance to relay mail through your Exchange server.  If you have multiple Exchange servers, this has to be configured on the server that holds the Hub Transport role.  

-Cody Wilson
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On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 1:55 PM, ray at electronicstheory.com <ray at electronicstheory.com> wrote:
>I run circa 150 boxes, each using a single GMAIL account as a point of access.

>That being said:

>You must make certain that all routers to the outside world are open for the
>following ports or you will have problems with email/CAP/network connectivity,
>etc:

>PORT    STATE SERVICE
>22/tcp  open  ssh
>80/tcp  open  http
>443/tcp open  https
>587/tcp open  smtp
>631/tcp open  ipp
>8000/tcp open

>Good luck getting your IT department to cooperate in opening all these
>ports...... they work with a conflict of interest (1) make sure everything
>connected works with the outside world, 2) make sure nothing from the outside
>world can get in).

>at bare minimum, ports 80,443, and 587 must be functional.  It may or may not
>work without the others, but I don't suggest trying it, lest something not work
>that you would otherwise want to.
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