I am trying to configure postfix correctly to send e-mail to a gmail.com
account, using my gmail credentials.
1. It all works fine if I use Thunderbird, with the following configuration:
server name: smtp.googlemail.com
port: 587
Connection security: STARTTLS
Authentication method: normal password
username: doc.evans@gmail.com
and the password set to my gmail password.
That, in fact, is the method that I am using to post this e-mail to the reflector.
2. But when I try to duplicate that with postfix, I receive the following error:
> <doc.evans@gmail.com>: host smtp.googlemail.com[142.250.138.16] said: 530-5.7.0
> Authentication Required. Learn more at 530 5.7.0
> https://support.google.com/mail/?p=WantAuthError
> e12-20020a9d490c000000b0060b6facd5e4sm4170514otf.29 - gsmtp (in reply to
> MAIL FROM command)
I have spent most of the morning following various Internet threads related to
this error, and making many variations to my postfix configuration, but
without success.
FWIW, here are the relevant parts of my current postfix configuration, and it
generates the error message quoted above (I am running debian stable):
in main.cf:
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl/sasl_passwd
smtp_sasl_security_options =
smtp_sasl_type = cyrus
smtp_use_tls = yes
smtp_tls_CAfile = /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
in sasl_passwd:
[smtp.googlemail.com]:587 doc.evans@gmail.com:<password>
I did check that the password matches exactly the password in Thunderbird.
So if some postfix guru could enlighten me as to what I need to change, I'd be
very grateful.
Doc
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