H.S. wrote: > H.S. wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>>> exim and postfix are overkill if you just want to send mails to a >>>> smarthost. msmtp could do the job; another option is esmtp. >>> But then you can't receive local (intra-system) mail. >> >> Interesting. Couldn't I have both, exim4 and msmtp? I ask because I am >> trying out msmtp's configuration on my computer which already has exim4 >> installed for local delivery. In the computer where I eventually intend >> to install the feature, there is going to be just msmtp. >> > > Now, on this machine which already has exim4 installed (for local main > delivery only), I installed msmtp and configured it and tried sending a > test mail. I got this email back: > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. > > A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its > recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: > > <username>@gmail.com > Mailing to remote domains not supported > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > hmm ...so exim4 involved in this? Should I remove exim4 to get msmtp to > work?
No, exim4 was not the problem. I was forgetting the "-A <account name>" argument of my mailer (heirloom-mailx). This works (from: http://phosphorusandlime.blogspot.com/2008/05/ubuntu-command-line-email.html): ---------------------------------------------------------------- {~}> cat ~/.msmtprc # gmail account account gmail host smtp.gmail.com port 587 auth on user <username>@gmail.com password <pasword here> from <username>@gmail.com tls on #tls_trust_file /home/USER/etc/.certs/ThawtePremiumServerCA.crt tls_starttls on tls_certcheck off # default account to use account default : gmail ---------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- ~}> cat .mailrc # gmail account account gmail { set from="<username>@gmail.com (Full Name)" set sendmail="/usr/bin/msmtp" set message-sendmail-extra-arguments="-a gmail" } ---------------------------------------------------------------- I was missing this .mailrc file earlier. Then, if the message to be sent is in /tmp/mgs.txt file, it can be sent using this command (from package heirloom-mailx): {~}> heirloom-mailx -A gmail -s "mta test" <username>@gmail.com < /tmp/msg.txt Regards. -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without ever having been read. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
