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How to get email working on an M1Gold
Posted by
bucko
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29 May 2012
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Like most of you, getting the M1 to actually work sending email is a royal PITA! But after many many hours of frustration, I finally figured it out. I read and tried everything people have done here with limited success. I got to the point it would work for a few days, then mysteriously stop. Or if I reboot the system, it would start again OR after reboot it would not work again.
The conclusion is that what should be a simple set-up, turns out to be a nightmare. I love Elk products, but they missed the boat on this one entirely. The M1XEP needs a lot of improvement with their FW to get this right once and for all. I hope someone at Elk takes this seriously and corrects thei FW in short order.
In the meantime, I finally have this working relaibly. Also I would fall into the "extreme" case of difficult users, so if this works for me, IT HAS TO WORK FOR YOU! I am doing this with a panel located in mainland China, not using a VPN, so all you others should be fine.
So let me outline how to do it......
First get a lavabit email account set up. Then go into preferences there and have to forward mail to....(your normal working email account).
In my case I host my website buckchucko.com through a Hong Kong server (ICDS). So I am using my email account through this server. It is a standard SSL email account, much like any email account. So in lavabit.com> Basic configuration> enable message forwarding.
Next in the M1XEP email tab, Server address> 72.249.41.52, From address {your name}@lavabit.com, Username&PW>{your lavabit login}
In your email address listings use the email address your are forwarding email to in the lavabit prefs setup from the first step.
IT WORKS PERFECTLY! Please note.....if you check your lavabit email, this email will not show up in there. You only need to check your forwarded email account for your email messages. And so you don't get ads in your email that lavabit puts on your regular email sent directly to lavabit! Just an added bonus there.
I did not try this with Gmail, but it should work the same.
The conclusion is that what should be a simple set-up, turns out to be a nightmare. I love Elk products, but they missed the boat on this one entirely. The M1XEP needs a lot of improvement with their FW to get this right once and for all. I hope someone at Elk takes this seriously and corrects thei FW in short order.
In the meantime, I finally have this working relaibly. Also I would fall into the "extreme" case of difficult users, so if this works for me, IT HAS TO WORK FOR YOU! I am doing this with a panel located in mainland China, not using a VPN, so all you others should be fine.
So let me outline how to do it......
First get a lavabit email account set up. Then go into preferences there and have to forward mail to....(your normal working email account).
In my case I host my website buckchucko.com through a Hong Kong server (ICDS). So I am using my email account through this server. It is a standard SSL email account, much like any email account. So in lavabit.com> Basic configuration> enable message forwarding.
Next in the M1XEP email tab, Server address> 72.249.41.52, From address {your name}@lavabit.com, Username&PW>{your lavabit login}
In your email address listings use the email address your are forwarding email to in the lavabit prefs setup from the first step.
IT WORKS PERFECTLY! Please note.....if you check your lavabit email, this email will not show up in there. You only need to check your forwarded email account for your email messages. And so you don't get ads in your email that lavabit puts on your regular email sent directly to lavabit! Just an added bonus there.
I did not try this with Gmail, but it should work the same.
