Email

We will be using our cognitivemedicine.com Gmail service through IMAP/SMTP.

Note Gmail only supports SSL connections since the NSA was caught reading your emails.

• Incoming Mail (IMAP) Server - Requires SSL
  • imap.gmail.com
  • Port: 993
  • Requires SSL:Yes
• Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server - Requires TLS
  • smtp.gmail.com
  • Port: 465 or 587
  • Requires SSL: Yes
  • Requires authentication: Yes
  • Use same settings as incoming mail server
• Full Name or Display Name: [your name]
• Account Name or User Name: your full Gmail address (username@gmail.com). Google Apps users, please enter username@your_domain.com
• Email address: your full Gmail address (username@gmail.com) Google Apps users, please enter username@your_domain.com
• Password: your Gmail password

The Java Mail API should be sufficient to support the types of operations we want to perform (we could use a lower level API like the Apache Commons Net one but that adds a certain amount of coding overhead).

Java Mail API (there are specific Gmail details here)