Subj : tls email
To   : MRO
From : Digital Man
Date : Fri Dec 27 2024 16:10:51

  Re: tls email
  By: MRO to digitalman on Thu Dec 26 2024 11:53 pm

 > So I am unable to send email to gmail now.
 > it gives me an error msg that I am not sending via tls.

Are you sure it's not for lack of a SPF record for your hostname? That's the more common issue sending to gmail.

 > in scfg i have the tls port enabled for smtp; port 465

That setting is for *incoming* SMTPS connections, has no impact on mail delivery.

 > for sendmail i use direct mail delivery.

The Synchronet sendmail thread always attempts SMTPS/STARTTLS first.

 > I keep getting this error from gmail, is there something else I need to
 > configure?

What is the error exactly?

 > I an running 3.19b.
 > I sent a test email from vert to one of my gmail accounts and it works on
 > vert.

Vertrauen has an SPF record:
$ host -t txt vert.synchro.net
vert.synchro.net descriptive text "v=spf1 mx a -all"

You can have one too:
https://wiki.synchro.net/module:dyndns#spf
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