sending email with gmail smtp ( secure layer ) in c++

Question

does any one had success with gmail smtp servers ? smtp.gmail.com to send emails from c++ code ? i know its using secure layer but i have no idea how to implement such one

Answer 1

Sending to GMail over SSL connection on port 465 does work, and in a straightforward way. You establish connection, you do SSL initialization/handshake, then send EHLO command and it is the usual way from there. You also need login or plain authentication with the server to make it accept your messages.

Answer 2

Your ISP could be blocking the secure SMTP port.

You could try to the same in Thunderbird and verify that the port is open first.

Answer 3

This is what i used, It was for linux though, It should Technically work on windows

http://johnwiggins.net/jwsmtp/

The Tutorials are there and straigt forwards

http://johnwiggins.net/jwsmtp/example1.html

Here is a copy and paste from the site showing Ports and SMTP Server. Credit goes to john wiggins

     jwsmtp::mailer mail(to.c_str( ),
                     from.c_str( ),
                     subject.c_str( ),
                     mailmessage.c_str( ),
                     smtpserver.c_str( ),
                     jwsmtp::mailer::SMTP_PORT,
                     false);

To Authenticate

mail.username("loginname");
mail.password("secret");
mail.authtype(mailer::PLAIN);  

Currently only LOGIN and PLAIN authentication are supported, LOGIN by default, to set to PLAIN call the authtype function