[gentoo-user] Gmail and ssmpt

On Dec 13, 2005, at 9:59 am, cucu ionut cristian wrote:

> On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 18:45 -0500, ellotheth rimmwen wrote:
>> Evening, list. I'm about through with this issue and ready to just try
>> another lightweight mta, but I thought I'd give it one last go. I've
>> combed gmane, the Gentoo forums, and Google to no effect. Here's the
>> question: Have your (or anyone you know) been able to set up ssmtp
>> with Gmail's SMTP service? Or with STARTTLS at all, for that matter?
>
> Yes actually I have ! I'm replaing u through evolution. It's quite
> simple gmail gives u all the instructions on how to enable pop & smpt
> and how to configure your email client

Erm... from what you're saying I think you're configuring the SMTP
settings in the Evolution email client. The OP wants to deliver mail
using Gmail's STMP service & the `ssmtp` package.

Since he doesn't give any details of the problem I have no idea why
this should be difficult but I would assume, since he's tried setting
up an SMTP client (the `ssmtp` package), that the OP has read Gmail's
instructions & enabled SMTP in his webmail preferences.

$ esearch ssmtp
[ Results for search key : ssmtp ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]

* mail-mta/ssmtp
Latest version available: 2.61
Latest version installed: 2.61
Size of downloaded files: 52 kB
Homepage: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/ssmtp/
Description: Extremely simple MTA to get mail off the system to a
Mailhub
License: GPL-2

Stroller.

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Success! I kept fiddling with the settings and got it working. For
future reference:

<config file="/etc/ssmtp.conf">
mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587
UseSTARTTLS=YES
AuthUser=handle@gmail.com
AuthPass=pass
</config>

Had to crawl through the source. Jeez. You also may want to mess with
the rewriteDomain setting etc., but the above is the bare minimum.

Thanks for the help.

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On 12/13/05, Stroller <stroller.DeleteThis@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:

> > Yes actually I have ! I'm replaing u through evolution. It's quite
> > simple gmail gives u all the instructions on how to enable pop & smpt
> > and how to configure your email client

> Since he doesn't give any details of the problem I have no idea why
> this should be difficult but I would assume, since he's tried setting
> up an SMTP client (the `ssmtp` package), that the OP has read Gmail's
> instructions & enabled SMTP in his webmail preferences.

Thanks, folks. Yes, I have followed the instructions, for both Gmail
and sSMTP. (I've actually set up Thunderbird to use Gmail's SMTP
server with my two non-Gmail accounts. It's great.) sSMTP is the
problem: The clearest documentation I've found for setting up STARTTLS
with sSMTP is located in someone's ssmtp.conf on a pastebin-style
service. (Read: There is no documentation that I can find.) Scanning
the forums and list archives produces a lot of "Yeah, I have that
problem too."

And it's "she." =D

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