SSMTP

[dalewis62]

I have been using SSMTP to send emails though Gmail for years an then suddenly with no other change stopped getting messages a couple weeks ago. I am getting the error "cannot open socket". I have re-confirmed my configuration against Ian's tutorial till my eyes are crossed. Has anyone else experienced this and found the solution?

[fluttershy]

Apparrently people are saying to add this line to smtp.conf but its not working for me.

"TLS_CA_File=/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt "

[dalewis62]

Thanks for the reply fluttershy. Appears I am in same spot as you where adding the certificate line has not changed problem.

[fluttershy]

hey. update. try putting no instead of yes for both of the tls lines and tell me what the output of a test email says

[fluttershy]

i got it working. updated am linking you my conf that works

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# Config file for sSMTP sendmail
#
# The person who gets all mail for userids < 1000
# Make this empty to disable rewriting.
root=kaibsora@gmail.com

# The place where the mail goes. The actual machine name is required no
# MX records are consulted. Commonly mailhosts are named mail.domain.comu



mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587

AuthUser=kaibsora@gmail.com
Authpass=
#UseSSL=YES
UseTLS=Yes
UseStartTls=Yes
TLS_CA_File=/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
# Where will the mail seem to come from?
rewriteDomain=gmail.com
hostname=localhost
FromLineOverride=YES

[fluttershy]

It seems as the hostname needed to be changed.

[dalewis62]

Thank for the feedback fluttershy. I will try some of your thoughts when I get home this evening.

Have question about the certificate. On my machine the director path does not exist and I do not have a file ca-bundle.crt. How did you get the certificate and did you have to create the directory path? I currently have mine pointed to ca-certificate.crt which is found in the director /usr/lib/ssl/certs.

[dalewis62]

I finally got it working and without the certificate. Ended up having to change the hostname and then reboot did trick.