Re: reportbug and GMail SMTP servers
On Sun 06 Nov 2016 at 10:28:38 -0500, Henning Follmann wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 06, 2016 at 04:57:02PM +0200, Sophoklis Goumas wrote:
> > On 6 November 2016 at 14:20, Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > > Because google consider anything not written by them to be "insecure".
> > > For some time now google has disallowed (by default) what they deem to be
> > > insecure connections. As a result, one has to alter settings to "allow
> > > unsafe connections", or whatever they call it.
> > >
> >
> > Is that really the case?
> >
> > Is Google just being stubborn or are they just actually trying to
> > enforce, in their way, some more secure way which reportbug is not
> > compatible to comply with yet?
> >
>
> It has nothing to do with reportbug. Forget about reportbug here.
I'd agree with that (it can be tested if needs be). In his reportbug
preferences file Sophoklis Goumas has
smtphost "smtp.gmail.com:587"
smtpuser "olspookishmagus@gmail.com"
#smtppasswd "my password here"
The third line is commented out.
> Configure you mail setup properly and then reportbug will work too.
Postfix has nothing to do with it either because it is not being used.
The mail is going directly to gmail.
Google accepts mail for relaying on port 25;
sendemail -vv -t <A> -f <B> -m TEST -u test -s smtp.gmail.com:25 -xu <C> -xp <D>
STARTTLS is used.
The sendemail package is useful for this sort of test.
--
Brian.
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