Re: SSMTP and SMTP without encryption

[Michael Pobega <pobega@gmail.com>]

On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 10:13:30PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote:
> Michael Pobega wrote:
> >I'm currently in the middle of trying to swerve away from using Gmail,
> >but the last thing standing in my way before I do is to get SMTP
> >working. SMTP works under Thunderbird so I know my account is fine.
> >
> >(In all scenarios, I am using "/usr/sbin/ssmtp -auACCOUNT -apPASSWORD")
> >
> >>[pobega@ackbar]$ cat /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
> >>mailhub=mail.digital-haze.net
> >>FromLineOverride=YES
> >>hostname=pobega@digital-haze.net
> >>rewriteDomain=
> >>root=pobega
> >>UseTLS=YES
> >>UseSTARTTLS=YES
> >
> >Produces this error when I try to send mail:
> >
> >>ssmtp: Authorization failed (535 5.7.1 Credentials Rejected 
> >>h13sm1687130wxd)
> >
> >(Same as above, but without the last two lines)
> >>[pobega@ackbar]$ cat /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
> >>mailhub=mail.digital-haze.net
> >>FromLineOverride=YES
> >>hostname=pobega@digital-haze.net
> >>rewriteDomain=
> >>root=pobega
> >
> >Spits out:
> >
> >>ssmtp: Server didn't like our AUTH LOGIN (530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS 
> >>command +first i12sm3108091wxd)
> >
> >So as for STARTTLS, I'm damned if I do and I'm damned if I don't. The
> >Dreamhost Wiki[0] entry on SSMTP says to use the latter setup, but
> >again, it doesn't seem to be working for me.
> >
> >[0] http://wiki.dreamhost.com/SSMTP
> >
>
> There is LOGIN and PLAIN.  Do you have them both?
> 

What do you mean by that? I've been reading the man page for ssmtp.conf
and I don't see anything like that in there (Besides AuthMethod).

Explain what you mean, because I'd sure love to get my SMTP up ASAP.

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