Cannot get email from NAS...firewall settings?

I have a NAS that allows for errors to be emailed and I decided to use
GMail. However, it doesn't seem to be sending the emails. I suspect
that my router's firewall is blocking the port. I would like to know
what is the most secure way to get the emails out. I guess I need to
open the port listed below ONLY for outgoing and ONLY for (an IP, a
MAC addr?) but how do I do this?

Here are the settings and where I found them:
smtp.gmail.com
port: 465 or 587
imachessnut@gmail.com
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13287

THANKS

John

Re: Cannot get email from NAS...firewall settings?

"Warren, John" wrote in message
news:1172588264.530207.140390@t69g2000cwt.googlegroups.com.. .
>I have a NAS that allows for errors to be emailed and I decided to use
> GMail. However, it doesn't seem to be sending the emails. I suspect
> that my router's firewall is blocking the port. I would like to know
> what is the most secure way to get the emails out. I guess I need to
> open the port listed below ONLY for outgoing and ONLY for (an IP, a
> MAC addr?) but how do I do this?
>
> Here are the settings and where I found them:
> smtp.gmail.com
> port: 465 or 587
> imachessnut@gmail.com
> http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13287
>
> THANKS
>
> John
>

Why not just send them via your local smtp server as you would any other
emails?

Chris.

Re: Cannot get email from NAS...firewall settings?

chris wrote:


> Why not just send them via your local smtp server as you would any other
> emails?

Because he does not run one?!

Wolfgang

Re: Cannot get email from NAS...firewall settings?

"Wolfgang Kueter" wrote in message
news:es2f1s$3u2$1@news.shlink.de...
> chris wrote:
>
>
>> Why not just send them via your local smtp server as you would any other
>> emails?
>
> Because he does not run one?!
>
> Wolfgang
>

So he never sends regular emails?

Re: Cannot get email from NAS...firewall settings?

chris wrote:

>
> "Wolfgang Kueter" wrote in message
> news:es2f1s$3u2$1@news.shlink.de...
>> chris wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Why not just send them via your local smtp server as you would any other
^^^^^

>>> emails?
>>
>> Because he does not run one?!

> So he never sends regular emails?

I assume he sends mails and might use a remote mail server to do it. Most of
our customers use our mail servers, only a small part runs their own local
mail server. Using the mail server of ones ISP has been common practice for
decades and I would not regard that as a local one. Well, and if any of our
customers does, I have to talk seriously with him . ;)

Wolfgang