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>1...@gmail.com:smtp.gmail.com:587 > dalerdalek<annoy the bots>1...@gmail.com:587 > other_user:rdalek<annoy the bots>1...@gmail.com:587 > root@Gentoo-1 / # > > root@Gentoo-1 / # grep -v '^#' /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf > root=postmaster > root=rdalek1...@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>1...@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 :-) :-)
