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

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

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

:-)  :-)