Setting Up Xcode Server Email Notifications on a Repurposed Household Mac So They Send From Your GSuite Account
I recently repurposed a family computer to play a new role: Xcode build server. Setting up the bot wasn't too bad overall, but there was one really big hurdle: getting post-integration email notifications to actually send. Despite the (relative) user-friendliness of the UI, the email notification feature is very unforgiving. It expects to be running on a mac that is hosting (or sitting behind) a domain that's also running it's own SMTP service. A repurposed family computer is not going to have such a setup. Outbound mail is going to either not send at all or else likely get bounced by spam filtering.
I do have a GSuite account for small business stuff. I host my website at Media Temple, but the email service is run by Gmail, with DNS records configured to route mail traffic to Gmail. What I want is for my Xcode bot to send email notifications from one of my GSuite accounts. The following are s