How to get FREE reliable SMTP

The reason I looked into getting FREE SMTP is because my own free email service wouldn't do what I wanted it to do. I had made an email to my (at the moment) small customer base, clicked send and I got the error that I had reached my limit of sends. I didn't even know that email accounts had a limit of sends. This being the case I had to find out how to send my email and fast.

The first thing I did was goto my domain provider and set up the free email account that came with my domain (I hadn't done this before because I had no real need to as I had a few free email accounts that was already in use). Once I had spent nearly an hour setting up a few different email addresses for my business I soon discovered that these email addresses only recieved (you could set up autoresponders for them) but if you need to send you had to PAY for a SMTP. After a bit of reading up on it I discovered that you could use your own SMTP that comes with your ISP (if your ISP actually gives you an email account that is) or any other SMTP for free accounts and stuff.

The first step is to create a free googlemail account on google.

Once you have done this go to your googlemail account and click settings. Go to the Forwarding and POP tab and enable POP, then save settings.



The program I have chosen to show you how to set up your email accounts to use googles SMPT is Outlook Express. Why? Because its free with windows and is a good emailing program. It also shouldn't be too hard to adapt these instructions for other programs either.

Ok. So fire up your Outlook Express and click on Tools Accounts.



Then click on Add - Mail



Enter your name and your email address. Then on the next page add the POP address that comes with the account that you WANT the free SMTP for and then add googles SMTP in the SMTP box 'smtp.googlemail.com'



On the next page enter your Account Name and Password for the account you want the free email for and click Next then Finish.

Ok, we are now half way there. You should now be back at the Accounts dialog box. Highlight the account you have just set up and click on Properties. When the next dialog box pops up click on the Servers tab. In the Outgoing Mail Server section at the bottom of the dialog box put a tick in the My server requires authentication box and click on the Settings button



In the following dialog box click on the Log on using button and type in your google account name and password and click OK. Back in the properties dialog box select the Advanced tab and change the Server Port Numbers for the Outgoing Mail(SMTP) to 465 and make sure you tick the This server requires a secure connection (SSL) box.



Providing you have done everything correctly you should now be able to send your emails using your personalised email address using Google's SMTP Server.