Apr
25
2008
I recently decided to use CI Factory on a server at my home for my moon-lighting projects. Have been using it at work and studying it for several months now on and off, so I felt confident!
Interestingly enough I hit a small snag with NAnt and the <mail> tag. There are no, as far as I have seen, attributes for credentials for this tag so sending out Alert emails from CI Factory would always thrown an error.
My initial though was to set up an SMTP relay on the CI server to relay through my web host. No go. I just couldn't get it to jive...
Finally, I stumbled upon a nice little blog post by Gina Trapani which discusses using your GMail account to act as your SMTP server! SWEET!
http://lifehacker.com/software/email-apps/how-to-use-gmail-as-your-smtp-server-111166.php
Problem solved!