configuring heirloom mailx still unsuccessful-- why? Shouldnt it be simple?

okos · 04-08-2008, 12:40 AM

Hi,
I have wasted lots of time setting up heirloom mailx and I still can't send emails out nor get emails. What is the problem here?

This is what I got.

I downloaded it here.

I set up /home/okos/.mailrc for accessing my gmail account as follows:

Quote:

account gmail {
set smtp-use-starttls
set ssl-verify=ignore
set smtp=smtp.gmail.com:587
#set smtp-auth=login
set smtp-auth-user=okos@gmail.com
set smtp-auth-password=************
set from=okos@gmail.com
}

I checked my mail and I know I have some on the server:

Quote:

okos@me:~$mailx
okos@me:~$No mail for okos

I tried to send mail to my yahoo account:

Quote:

mailx okos@yahoo.com
okos@me:~$ mailx okos@yahoo.com
Subject: test2
This is my second test
EOT
okos@me:~$ /home/okos/dead.letter... Saved message in /home/okos/dead.letter

FYI: The email address is not my true email address so PLEASE dont send me any email.

Nothing is working. I cant send nor receive mail.
I would greatly appreciate some help.
Thanks

andrew.46 · 04-08-2008, 07:44 AM

Hi,

I am a little puzzled at the choice of mailx. If there is not a special reason for using this try mutt and gmail:

http://www.andrews-corner.org/mutt.html

Andrew

okos · 04-08-2008, 10:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by andrew.46

Hi,

I am a little puzzled at the choice of mailx. If there is not a special reason for using this try mutt and gmail:
Andrew

Hi Andrew,
First of all, I have never used a command line mail client before. I really don't know much about mailx or mutt.

Secondly, logrotate uses mail as the default mail client and I have not found any literature on other options. What I am actually interested in is gmailing the logs to myself once a month for review. I am not sure if mutt will do that. I am willing though to give it a try.

And thirdly, I am wondering why I should choose mutt over mailx?

Thanks for the response.
okos

andrew.46 · 04-08-2008, 10:57 PM

Hi okos:

Quote:

Originally Posted by okos

Hi Andrew,
First of all, I have never used a command line mail client before. I really don't know much about mailx or mutt.

OIC. I have mostly used mutt :-)

Quote:

Secondly, logrotate uses mail as the default mail client and I have not found any literature on other options. What I am actually interested in is gmailing the logs to myself once a month for review. I am not sure if mutt will do that. I am willing though to give it a try.

I have not done this myself but mutt would be able to do this probably as part of a seperate script.

Quote:

And thirdly, I am wondering why I should choose mutt over mailx?

If you simply want to send logs once a month I suspect mailx would be your choice. If you want to invest the time and effort into a more fully featured program that will cover all your email needs mutt is your client.

Plus of course you could benefit from all the work I have done on my mutt and gmail page :-)

Andrew

okos · 04-09-2008, 01:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by andrew.46

Hi okos:

Plus of course you could benefit from all the work I have done on my mutt and gmail page :-)

Andrew

Hi Andrew,
Thanks for getting back to me.
Ill try mutt.

I had a question about that. In the fetchmailrc do you have to leave the single quotes? Or do you remove the single quotes also?

Quote:

poll pop.gmail.com
with proto POP3
user 'gmail_address'
there with password '********'
is 'username' here
mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"
options
no keep
ssl
sslcertck
sslcertpath /home/username/.certs/

Forexample would it be:

Quote:

user 'okos@gmail.com'
there with password 'MYPASSWORD'
is 'okos' here

OR

Quote:

user okos@gmail.com
there with password MYPASSWORD
is okos here

Thanks for all of the work.
okos

andrew.46 · 04-09-2008, 01:32 AM

Hi,

I just had a look at my own configuration of ~/.fetchmailrc and it has the apostrophes as follows:

Code:

poll pop.gmail.com                   
with proto POP3                      
user '********.**@gmail.com'        
there with password '*****'        
is 'andrew' here                              
mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"        
options                                                             
no keep                                 
ssl                                  
sslcertck                            
sslcertpath /home/andrew/mail/certs/

I am honestly not sure if these are required but it certainly works this way :-)

Andrew