sending mail via terminal

[sniper8752]

I am trying to send mail via the terminal following this tutorial. I get the error saying "send-mail: Authorization failed...."). I double checked my username/password, and it was fine. What else could I be missing?

[HeroOfCanton]

Are you able to receive mail okay? If so, try changing the port you're using for outgoing mail. I always have issues with my ISP blocking SMTP ports because apparently they think every person in the world uses webmail exclusively. Quick change of the port number and it works fine.

[sniper8752]

I use the web interface in gmail, and it seems to work ok, if that's what you mean. what port should I try? i am uinsg 465, and made sure that UseTLS is set to yes.

here is my configuration file:

#
# Config file for sSMTP sendmail
#
# The person who gets all mail for userids < 1000
# Make this empty to disable rewriting.
root=postmaster

# The place where the mail goes. The actual machine name is required no
# MX records are consulted. Commonly mailhosts are named mail.domain.com
mailhub=mail

# Where will the mail seem to come from?
#rewriteDomain=

# The full hostname
# hostname=raspberrypi

# Are users allowed to set their own From: address?
# YES - Allow the user to specify their own From: address
# NO - Use the system generated From: address
#FromLineOverride=YES

root=username@gmail.com
mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:465
rewriteDomain=gmail.com
AuthUser=username
AuthPass=password
FromLineOverride=YES
UseTLS=YES

[HeroOfCanton]

You can give any port number a shot. Really depends on how gmail's servers are setup. Not sure what they allow personally. Looking at your config, I'm kind of doubting that's your issue now... Normally it's the standard SMTP port 25 that ISP's block, not 465.

Here's something interesting though:
I see on my personal gmail settings that the outgoing server is smtp.googlemail.com not smtp.gmail.com.

Might want to give that a shot for your mailhub setting.

[prodigy_]

Try mailx instead: http://www.bogh.us/doc/mailx_gmail/

[sniper8752]

You can give any port number a shot. Really depends on how gmail's servers are setup. Not sure what they allow personally. Looking at your config, I'm kind of doubting that's your issue now... Normally it's the standard SMTP port 25 that ISP's block, not 465.

Here's something interesting though:
I see on my personal gmail settings that the outgoing server is smtp.googlemail.com not smtp.gmail.com.

Might want to give that a shot for your mailhub setting.

When I use a port, such as 25, it says that it cannot open that address. Changing to googlemail didn't seem to help.

[sniper8752]

Try mailx instead: http://www.bogh.us/doc/mailx_gmail/

how do I install it?

EDIT: Nevermind; It looks like I have it installed already.

[sniper8752]

For some reason, it still has the send-mail: authorization failed. what should I do about that?

[prodigy_]

Not sure. I tested mailx with my Gmail account just recently and it worked fine.

[sanderj]

What is your goal? Use a one-liner to send a mail via a smart-host? If so, I advice to use https://code.google.com/p/mailsend/ ... works for me.

Usage:

echo "Hello, this is a test" | mailsend -smtp  gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com -f blabla@telfort.nl -t evaq@gmail.com -sub Testing -v

HTH