That's not abusing, that's exactly what they're made for (and I've also seen a dozen of boards using free email accounts for notifications). They (GMX, Gmail) set up their SMTP-server so people can actually USE it with their mail clients like Thunderbird Outlook..CuteAlien wrote:Abusing another mailaccount as smtp-server might actually really work. At least unless it's not against the guidelines of the mailproviders (and we have to check such stuff first). So could be a good idea.
About the mailserver thing, I could also donate my mailserver for this task, make you an account for it which you could use. No legal problems and very high speed server (If you fear that my server could be offline sometime, just risk it and if my server should really happen to be offline sometime (maybe I die?) you can still stop notifications again or get another mail account somewhere else... )
This is actually the first board since like 5 years which I've met where email notification does NOT work. And I'm not even talking about small boards like this, I'm talking about really big ones, hundreds of thousands sometimes millions of registered users. I bet there is no spam problem (and I personally don't know any option either how to send spam) otherwise those big boards would have problems.CuteAlien wrote:At least unless there's something speaking against this (like making it easier for anyone to spam users).
So if you don't want such a free email account I can donate one, then you only have to follow the SMTP setting manual with screenshots and you even have it done in 2 minutes. Probably much less than you already spent for posting here.
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