Google mail vpn blocking

[octopus]

Hello everyone
I have always used Goole to send emails with a security key with my scripts
Now it seems that they block sending emails if you use a VPN service.
It is still possible to receive mail, however.
Has anyone recorded this and found a way to send via VPN services?
Have you perhaps switched to another service?

 

[eibgrad]

This is the price you pay for a freebie.

Many years ago when Yahoo was king, I had a problem w/ my Yahoo email account. Their webapp had somehow corrupted my inbox. But trying to get anyone to listen to me was next to impossible. As long as I wasn't paying for it, they felt free to ignore me. I had to dig out a tech support # (which they kept well hidden), only to have the person on the other end explain, like a robot, there's nothing they can do (implying I was the problem). Can't remember how it eventually got fixed, but I do recall sending a couple dozen emails explaining my plight and eventually someone bothering to fix it. But it took SIX WEEKS! That's SIX WEEKS w/o access to my *primary* email account!

The lesson learned? Do NOT depend on anything you get for free, esp. if it's that important to you. It can be taken away or changed at any time, and without notice. From that day forward, I've always had a *paid* email account, so I don't run into these kinds of problems.

 

[cptnoblivious]

Hello everyone
I have always used Goole to send emails with a security key with my scripts
Now it seems that they block sending emails if you use a VPN service.
<snip>

I just connected to my VPN service, logged into gmail and sent an email from there. No problems. So I don't think your title is correct as it sounds like they block all VPN providers, which isn't what I've found in my test.

So, I'd suggest you:
1. List which VPN service
2. Test using a different end point of your provider
3. Test using a different provider if multiple end points of your current provider don't work.

 

[octopus]

So, I'd suggest you:

1. List which VPN service

OVPN.COM

2. Test using a different end point of your provider

Tested a bunch of different servers.

3. Test using a different provider if multiple end points of your current provider don't work.

I won't pay for another one. This have always working fine ~95% uptime.

The question was actually if there is a good replacement for gmail?

 

[Tech9]

The question was actually if there is a good replacement for gmail?

For free - perhaps nothing beats the big brothers Google and Microsoft.

For paid - there are options around including free limited accounts. Some ideas:

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www.privacyguides.org

 

[jerry6]

Proton paid Tuta free or paid and Startmail Paid all work well

 

[New2This]

Using Proton here, never looked back

 

[octopus]

Hello everyone
I have always used Goole to send emails with a security key with my scripts
Now it seems that they block sending emails if you use a VPN service.
It is still possible to receive mail, however.
Has anyone recorded this and found a way to send via VPN services?
Have you perhaps switched to another service?

Hi again
After alot of poking I have a solution to get VPN working to send mail through Google mail with curl.
Using port 587 solve the problem.

*   Trying 64.233.164.108:587...
* socket successfully bound to interface 'tun12'
* Connected to smtp.gmail.com (64.233.164.108) port 587
< 220 smtp.gmail.com ESMTP 2adb30xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx7622e87.107 - gsmtp
> EHLO tempEMailContent.TXT
< 250-smtp.gmail.com at your service, [193.187.91.222]
< 250-SIZE 35882577
< 250-8BITMIME
< 250-STARTTLS
< 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
< 250-PIPELINING
< 250-CHUNKING
< 250 SMTPUTF8
> STARTTLS
< 220 2.0.0 Ready to start TLS