Trying to setup email messaging on M1XEP either thru yahoo or gmail. Have Server URL/IP adress as smtp.mail.yahoo.com, port 995. Username and password is what I use to login to may yahoo email. Uploaded to M1XEP and rebooted. Tried sending email using Test button under M1XEP Setup / email tab. No dice. Do I need to forward port 995, or do anything else. Hop on my left foot? Any suggestions? Thanks.
ELK M1XEP Setup Email
- Thread starter reko19
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found it, will try to figure out how to set it up. does this mean that I need to have a computer connected to M1 and constantly running?
also, searching this forum looks like some people are able to use gmail and SMS. Anybody could chime in on what are the correct server url / ip address, port, username (my email address?), password (my email password) fields for this?
thank you
I haven't tried to configure stunnel. My solution was to obtain a free email address from lavabit.com. Their SMTP server supports sending unecrypted email. Here are directions how to configure M1XEP if you decide to use lavabit:
Server URL: smtp.lavabit.com
Port: 587
"From" email address: [email protected]
user name: userid
password: password
Server URL: smtp.lavabit.com
Port: 587
"From" email address: [email protected]
user name: userid
password: password
thanks, so far this seems to be the easiest way to go. i'll give it a shot. curious how some other users here were able to use gmail and sms
regards
Hi, I have tried and asked before. If anybody has got email to work with a register.com account, I would love to see how you got it to work. I have been trying for quite a while now. How about a Web Control board? I have not tried that yet. Any advice would be great.
Thanks,
Mike
Thanks,
Mike
setup account with lavabit and tried it, still no luck. tried port 25 / port 587, server url smtp.lavabit.com / lavabit.com to no avail. any other suggestions? i am out of ideas
also checked my Verizon FIOS router firewall settings, it is on minimum both incoming and outgoing traffic is allowed
looking at some older posts, looks like there was a problem with Verizon FIOS routers, anybody could chime in if this was resolved?
anything else i should be checking?
No, I did not. I recently setup a network attached storage which uses port 50 and port 80 so I know they are not blocking all ports, don't know specifically about port 25.
I think part of the problem is that I used a test button on the ELK RP trying to check if email is working. From what I gather I need to be disconnected from M1EXP in order for the email to work.
I think part of the problem is that I used a test button on the ELK RP trying to check if email is working. From what I gather I need to be disconnected from M1EXP in order for the email to work.
to my own surprise was able to get it to work. somebody needs to explain to me what is going on. changed smtp.lavabit.com to an actual IP address 72.249.41.52 and it did the trick. TCP/IP settings are "Assigned an IP address via DHCP" and "Obtain DNS automatically". Looks like DNS is not working properly, what am I missing??
wuench
Senior Member
By free DNS, they mean an external DNS server that will help you resolve things like yahoo.com or google.com to their IP addresses. It's primary advantage is you aren't relying on your ISP's DHCP to hand you your DNS settings.
To deal with you external IP changing, you need a free dynamic DNS service, like dyndns.org. You sign up for an account and you can put those settings into the Elk or even better your router and it will update a dns name ex. reko19.dyndns.org every time you external IP changes. The you would just access you home via that name which should always point to the correct IP.
To deal with you external IP changing, you need a free dynamic DNS service, like dyndns.org. You sign up for an account and you can put those settings into the Elk or even better your router and it will update a dns name ex. reko19.dyndns.org every time you external IP changes. The you would just access you home via that name which should always point to the correct IP.
Thanks for the reply. Here is the confusing part :"By installing an update client on a device at that location, your hostname is automatically updated whenever the IP address changes, ensuring you can access your device remotely at any time". I would imagine this is a piece of software that gets installed on a PC? This is not a primary residence so i wasn't planning to have a computer, let alone have it on 24/7. Is my router capable of doing this?
thanks
