Hi Norm,
David wrote:
post shouldn't hang, of course.
Can you verify that you can connect to the gmail smtp server by
entering the following at a shell prompt:
telnet smtp.gmail.com 587
If that responds, then hit ^] (Ctrl right bracket), then enter "quit"
at the telnet prompt.
If that goes well, you could try using mhmail(1) to send an email using
Gmail as your outgoing SMTP server. I just did this and it worked.
Ensure your ~/.netrc has permissions 0600 and has the line
machine smtp.gmail.com login normanzalmonshapiro@gmail.com password foobar
Change foobar in that line to your password.
Send the email to me by pasting this command.
seq 314 |
fmt |
mhmail -profile -to ralph@inputplus.co.uk \
-from normanzalmonshapiro@gmail.com \
-subject 'Test using mhmail.' -msgid \
-server smtp.gmail.com -port 587 -sasl \
-user normanzalmonshapiro@gmail.com -tls -snoop
Text will now appear, starting something like
Trying to connect to "smtp.gmail.com" ...
Connecting to 66.102.1.108:587...
<= 220 smtp.gmail.com ESMTP 60sm28745245wrn.86 - gsmtp
It should hopefully end with
(tls-encrypted) => DATA
(tls-decrypted) <= 354 Go ahead...
(tls-encrypted) => .
(tls-decrypted) <= 250 2.0.0 OK...
(tls-encrypted) => QUIT
(tls-decrypted) <= 221 2.0.0 closing connection...
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Cheers, Ralph.