How to make Google Apps for Your Domain work with WHMCS in 5 steps

[redrat]

Excellent tutorial sarwarfsd! Thanks.

[Gears]

Isn't this the same as the opening post?

[redrat]

Hell no. That was ten times better Gears!

[Gears]

 

I admit it seems simpler and to the point

[redrat]

lol. I meant the first post was 10 times better. And I was just jesting anyway.

 

I guess it helps to have the info repeated on every page for reference? Either way, it has been darned useful! And thanks!

[Gears]

lol no problem.

 

With the newest version it is much easier to use Google Apps

[Zash]

My PHP Mail function is working fine, so I skipped Step 4. The emails are getting sent to the inboxes fine, but they aren't getting sent to WHMCS as a support ticket.

 

I have configured the POP and everything as mentioned. Thanks.

[redrat]

I love this thread

[oletechnology]

JAJAJA, Its really crazy, I did this without readding this post, because I had some problems with whmcs and gmail, when I tryed to send a notification with whmcs gmail, always reject them.

So I figure this solution all by myself, and its funny that someone already did. I was readding some reponses, and I really cant believe some people doesn't have a clue about the google apps solution.

It's just great to have a 99.99% of email uptime. It's more efficient, and my clients will be gratefull.

See ya.

[NyNe]

works great as per instructions followed in first post

 

no issues at all to report (i'll come back if i find anything ;D)

[verveanmedia]

I have tried all of the above, and have gone through all the wiki notes and troubleshooting and I still cannot get it to work with Google Apps. I must be doing something wrong..

 

My Checklist:

 

- Email account set up in google apps, pop & imap enabled

- TLS/SSL enables on hosting server

- Cron job created in cPanel

- Support Department set up with correct login information

 

I have done all of the above and have gone over it several times but I still cant get it working. Is there something that I'm missing here?

[Milliment]

Thanks dude iv been trying to figger this out myself for a wile now.

 

Looks like i have to delete all my groups and creat all my department email addresses again lol.

 

Oh Well Thanks again

[Milliment]

I have done everything in the list of tings to do for this and yet i can not send emails via SMTP

 

the login details are all correct but i can not send email. any idea. Its not even logging the email as a sent email

[Milliment]

Ok i have tryed EVERYTHING to try and get thsi working and google isent giving me that many answers,

 

I have enabled debug mode on in class.phpmailer.php and now i get this error

 

SMTP -> ERROR: Failed to connect to server: Unable to find the socket transport "ssl" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP? (13668716)

 

Does anyone have any ideas onhow to fix this.

 

Thanks in advanced

 

Anthony

[Milliment]

I finaly got thsi working by re compialing my php seems that openSSL had issues

[Spaatz]

Hello All,

 

I am an ardent Google Apps user. It just makes sense. Unfortunately, Google Apps mail (GMail) does not work at all on my server in either POP or external SMTP.

 

I have set up two email addresses: support@mydomain.com and sales@mydomain.com in Google Apps for my domain.

 

In both I have activated IMAP and POP access. In Setup > General Settings I have configured the mail in multiple ways with no success. Port 587, 465, ssl://smtp.gmail.com tls://smtp.gmail.com, SSL checked and unckecked, all configuration settings attempted. I even attemted to edit the php_mailer_configuration file to hard code tls into the settings to no success.

 

I contacted my host to whitelist the SMTP addresses of smtp.gmail.com and discovered that port 587 was blocked. I had it unblocked. No success. I verified that OpenSSL was properly compiled in PHP, no success. I had the BLOCK_SMTP setting removed from my server, no success.

 

At this point I cannot send any smtp email messages from any of my accounts on Google Apps. The error I receive with SMTP is "mail Sending Failed - SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host."

 

I also cannot receive POP mail from my properly configured support departments. Each have the gmail specified POP settings and ports configured. If I send a message from the outside to the address, I receive nothing. If I submit a ticket from the domain form, I receive the ticket but cannot reply to it from either inside or outside the domain and receive no notifications.

 

Is there a problem with the mail functions of this software or am I going crazy?

 

Thanks for any help you can offer and please do not hesitate to ask any questions.

[Spaatz]

Update: my Host and their tech support team in India cannot figure out what is wrong with the setup either.

 

Is this included in WHMCS technical support?

[Milliment]

I had to recompial PHP to get openSSL to work. this is vital to get everything to work properly

[Gears]

The SMTP host is "smtp.gmail.com". Do not include tls:// or ssl://

 

...Port 587, 465, ssl://smtp.gmail.com tls://smtp.gmail.com, SSL checked and unckecked, all configuration settings attempted...

[Spaatz]

I tried that too. No joy. I can't send or receive any messages from within WHMCS through my Google Apps mail accounts. They function perfectly otherwise.

[kmkarim]

Odd, ive had this fine working up until now. Today i updated to 4.1 form 4.0.1 and I can no longer send emails out. Has anyone else had this problem?

[meechp123]

If I'm running version 4.1.2, do I still follow the same steps as outlined on the first page by Gears?

 

This thread is about 1 year old and I just want to make sure I am following the correct steps.

 

-tls://smtp.gmail.com or just smtp.gmail.com?

 

-Can I just download those files, backup my current files and overwrite them? Do I need to adjust any of the code?

 

-Create the cron job:

Create the cron job: "*/5 * * * * php -q /home/username/public_html/whmcs/pipe/pop.php"

 

Same steps? Anything easier?

[meechp123]

Worked like a charm! If anyone is on a Windows server, set up your cron php through the URL. Thank you Gears!

[husskii]

Hi Gears

I first signed up a few days ago and managed to work everything except for the mail system, I jhad my own free edition google apps account for my domain which I used with your tutorial, following it word for word, also used your link to edit the includes/class.phpmailer.php & includes/class.smtp.php since my phpmailer was missing one of the lines to edit, anyways long story short I know have a working ticket system thanks to your tutorial, and was also able to resend the signup confirmation etc (since they were never sent in the first place)

 

So mate thanks heaps tutorial works perfectly

[Gears]

Odd, ive had this fine working up until now. Today i updated to 4.1 form 4.0.1 and I can no longer send emails out. Has anyone else had this problem?

 

I just upgraded to 4.2 and I'm having issues:

Email Sending Failed - SMTP Error: Could not authenticate.

 

 

Trying to figure it out now.