Hi,
I am trying to send an email using gmail or yahoo ..etc.
I was looking into this thread
The issue i am facing is, when i try to connect to smtp.gmail.com, the connection fails. and the HostNotFoundError is thrown.

The smtp server name for gmail i got it from this website, here it says that

server address :smtp.gmail.com
port : 465
TLS/SSL required: yes, which i did not understand, what exactly i have to do for this case.

The code i am using is the code written by patrik08 in this thread post #9, I also made the edit that was mentioned in post #11.

so right now,I'm not able to get the connection to be successful.
Qt Code: 
  1. connect(smtpSocket,SIGNAL(connected()),this,SLOT(smtpConnected()))
  2. connect(smtpSocket,SIGNAL(error(QAbstractSocket::SocketError)),this,SLOT(smtpError(QAbstractSocket::SocketError)))
  3. ....
  4. ....
  5. smtpSocket->connectToHost("smtp.gmail.com",465)  // I also tried port 25 as in the original code but it failes to.
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Please if any one can help me with this I would really appreciate it.

BTW: the reason for making new thread, because i asked there and no one reply, as the thread really old and has too many replies so it seems no one is interested to reply , as well it maybe i am asking a noob questions, so I though maybe someone here will be welling to help me.


I made a compiled version with GUI interface to use the SMTP class{Send_Email.tar.gz}, so if anyone would like to test and try it.

Thanks