Expert Advisor - MT4 - Gmail

Hi People

Like many people out there I have had lot of problems trying to configure Gmail with MT4. I am running an Expert Advisor which has a setting which, when set to "true" will send a signal to my email account via the tool>email setting section of MT4.

The problem is I can't set it up properly. When I check my journal there is an error. I am sure the Smtp setting is correct. Could someone please tell me exactly what the settings are ?? Thank you.

it won't work with gmail or yahoo mail due to their security settings.

Not true, I use it with Yahoo. You do have to sign up for the premium service ($20 a year) to have access to the pop and smtp servers.

great info, didn't even know they had a premium service.

Apparently you can do it with www.Bluebottle.com, is this correct ?

Are there any other free email providers out there that cater for this ?

How do you set it up for Yahoo ?

yeah bluebottle works great. There is no reason you can't use their servers to send it to your gmail account.

I have used it with gmail, the thing is that the smtp port is different to the usual. These are the settings that I have and that worked (haven't checked again, this was a few months ago):

SMTP Server: smtp.gmail.com:465
SMTP Login: [email protected]
SMTP Password: youremailpassword

From: Anyname, [email protected] (I think I remember that it doesn't accept a different origin than itself)
To: anymail (but if it is a gmail address it will be arriving much faster)

The first few attempts maybe won't work, it seems it "learns" the procedure.
Hope it helps!

how abt live.com acc...

I have my msn acc with it....

sonic

This is what I did:

1) Fill in SMTP server with your ISP's...call them up if you don't know what it is
2) Leave SMTP Login and Pswd....blank
3) From and To....[yourname],[your email address]

I've been using this for a few months and it work just fine.

Hope those helps