Using Gmail for Ghost Transactional Emails

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For anyone who might come here trying to use gmail with a PikaPods install of Ghost and running into problems:

  1. Make sure to create an app password for your Google account here https://myaccount.google.com/apppasswords
  2. Ghost on PikaPods uses env vars in the pod settings for mail config. You’d want to use a port of 587 and set mail__options__secureConnection to false. (thanks to @mjw for that clue to solving my issue).