Re: reportbug and GMail SMTP servers
On Sun, Nov 06, 2016 at 04:53:39PM +0200, Sophoklis Goumas wrote:
> On 6 November 2016 at 13:54, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> > ...
> >
> > You haven't said what email client you are using, for a start. Some people
> > have assumed that you are using your own mail server. Are you? Are you
> > perhaps just using Gmail's own mail interface??
> >
>
> Postfix.
> Here is my /etc/postfix/main.cf :
> http://paste.debian.net/plain/892989
>
It is not configured at all.
> >
> > What exactly are you doing immediately before you fail to send?
> >
>
> I am inputting my Google Account password (correctly and checked).
>
how?
In your postfix config you have not provided a relay host or a smtp
authentication map.
You have not configure TLS, I assume google allows only authentication over
TLS. (I would)
> >
> > What have you got in /home/$USER/.reportbugrc?
> >
>
> Here is my ~/.reportbugrc :
> http://paste.debian.net/plain/892990
>
Yes,
you are not using your local setup.
You are submitting directly to googles MTA.
You have to figure out, how google expects you to authenticate.
May I suggest you configure your local mail setup properly, and then use
that setup for everything? It is much easier that way.
-H
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