Re: [gentoo-user] Computer system email no not working since gmail change.

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Dale wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I posted the other day about my email setup.  Then it hit me, while I
> copied the settings over, I never tested it.  So, I tested it.  Sure
> enough, no email sent.  Got error messages tho.  I mostly, maybe only,
> use this for SMART drive info.  If it detects failure or problems, it
> emails me.  Well, it's supposed to anyway.  So, I test by restarting
> smartd and it set to send a test email. 
>
> I'm almost certain this started when Google changed the security setup a
> few years back.  I've googled and tried the settings others use
> including the passkey thingy.  None of it works.  This is the output of
> messages for both smartd and smtp.  Check out my fancy egrep.  :-D 
>
>
> root@Gentoo-1 / # tail -n 50 -f /var/log/messages | egrep 'smartd|sSMTP'
> Sep  2 21:23:08 Gentoo-1 smartd[20742]: Monitoring 8 ATA/SATA, 0
> SCSI/SAS and 1 NVMe devices
> Sep  2 21:23:08 Gentoo-1 smartd[20742]: Executing test of <mail> to root ...
> Sep  2 21:25:25 Gentoo-1 sSMTP[20757]: Unable to connect to
> "smtp.gmail.com" port 587.
> Sep  2 21:25:25 Gentoo-1 sSMTP[20757]: Cannot open smtp.gmail.com:587
> Sep  2 21:25:25 Gentoo-1 smartd[20742]: Test of <mail> to root produced
> unexpected output (65 bytes) to STDOUT/STDERR:
> Sep  2 21:25:25 Gentoo-1 smartd[20742]: mail: cannot send message:
> Process exited with a non-zero status
> Sep  2 21:25:25 Gentoo-1 smartd[20742]: Test of <mail> to root: failed
> (32-bit/8-bit exit status: 256/1)
> Sep  2 21:25:25 Gentoo-1 smartd[20742]: Executing test of <mail> to root ...
> Sep  2 21:27:40 Gentoo-1 sSMTP[20885]: Unable to connect to
> "smtp.gmail.com" port 587.
> Sep  2 21:27:40 Gentoo-1 sSMTP[20885]: Cannot open smtp.gmail.com:587
>
>
>
> This is a edited version of some config files.  Obvious things like
> passwords and such changed. 
>
>
> root@Gentoo-1 / # cat /etc/ssmtp/revaliases
>
> root:rdalek<annoy the bots>1967@gmail.com:smtp.gmail.com:587
> dalerdalek<annoy the bots>1967@gmail.com:587
> other_user:rdalek<annoy the bots>1967@gmail.com:587
> root@Gentoo-1 / #
>
> root@Gentoo-1 / # grep -v '^#' /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
> root=postmaster
> root=rdalek1967@gmail.com  #Change to your preferred email address
> mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587  #Could also use port 587 for STARTTLS Old 465
> rewriteDomain=Gentoo-1  #Something to denote your machine's name
> FromLineOverride=YES
> UseSTARTTLS=YES
> #UseTLS=YES
> AuthUser=rdalek<annoy the bots>1967@gmail.com
> AuthPass=<not real either>  #Special characters seem to barf with ssmtp
> #AuthPass=abcdefghijklmnop
> mailhub=mail
> # hostname=_HOSTNAME_
> hostname=Gentoo-1
> root@Gentoo-1 / #
>
>
> I think that is the only config files.  If not, I may have missed one
> and that is the problem.  Some things that are commented out are things
> I tried with no success.  If someone has a working setup and would like
> to share a similar edited version of their files, that would be awesome. 
>
> Any ideas?  Does Google just outright block this now?  If so, I have
> another good reason to get rid of gmail.  :-) 
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>


No one here has their system set up to use Gmail for system emails??? 
Surely there is one person who can share a working config.  I just wish
Google would stop changing things and screwing up our emails. 

Dale

:-)  :-)