[SOLVED] ssmtp to gmail has stopped working

neowolf219 · 03-30-2016, 06:52 PM

Below config had been working for years, and seems something has changed on gmail side. My account does not use 2 factor auth and is set to accept third party applications via ssmtp website.

Get the infamous: ssmtp: Cannot open smtp.gmail.com:587

Telnet to that port works fine, so again, pretty sure Google has changed something since was working and stopped.

Anyone else experiencing this or found a resolution?

ssmtp.conf
mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587
hostname=blahblah@gmail.com
root=blahblah@gmail.com
AuthUser=blahblah@gmail.com
AuthPass=blahblah
UseSTARTTLS=yes
UseTLS=yes
FromLineOverride=yes

revaliases
root:blahblah@gmail.com:smtp.gmail.com:587

sgosnell · 03-30-2016, 07:09 PM

I've always seen Google smtp using port 465. That's what works on my system.

frankbell · 03-30-2016, 07:36 PM

Port 587 works for sending in my .msmtprc file:

Code:

tls on
tls_starttls on
tls_trust_file /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
auth on
host smtp.gmail.com
from [username]
user [username@gmail.com]
password [password]
port 587

I notice you don't seem to reference a cert. I have no idea whether that's an issue; it's just something I notice.

neowolf219 · 03-31-2016, 12:41 AM

Thanks for info guys! So if anyone else runs into this and has made sure their gmail account is set to allow third party apps and isn't using 2 factor auth ... the resolution I found for this is in the hostname option in the ssmtp.conf file. I did have it set to hostname=blahblah@gmail.com, well now Google is apparently wanting a FQDN in that field so I changed it to blahblah.blah.com and it seems to work (I just used fqdn of server I'm originating emails from). Strange. If anyone has more insight into why of this please let me know.