Hi Norm, David wrote: > post shouldn't hang, of course. > > Can you verify that you can connect to the gmail smtp server by > entering the following at a shell prompt: > > telnet smtp.gmail.com 587 > > If that responds, then hit ^] (Ctrl right bracket), then enter "quit" > at the telnet prompt.
If that goes well, you could try using mhmail(1) to send an email using Gmail as your outgoing SMTP server. I just did this and it worked. Ensure your ~/.netrc has permissions 0600 and has the line machine smtp.gmail.com login normanzalmonshap...@gmail.com password foobar Change foobar in that line to your password. Send the email to me by pasting this command. seq 314 | fmt | mhmail -profile -to ra...@inputplus.co.uk \ -from normanzalmonshap...@gmail.com \ -subject 'Test using mhmail.' -msgid \ -server smtp.gmail.com -port 587 -sasl \ -user normanzalmonshap...@gmail.com -tls -snoop Text will now appear, starting something like Trying to connect to "smtp.gmail.com" ... Connecting to 66.102.1.108:587... <= 220 smtp.gmail.com ESMTP 60sm28745245wrn.86 - gsmtp It should hopefully end with (tls-encrypted) => DATA (tls-decrypted) <= 354 Go ahead... (tls-encrypted) => . (tls-decrypted) <= 250 2.0.0 OK... (tls-encrypted) => QUIT (tls-decrypted) <= 221 2.0.0 closing connection... -- Cheers, Ralph.