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Re: Setting up Gmail as Sendmail Relay

disqus_YUnZzoi5Wi — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 04:09:32 -0000

Im getting this error :
Dec 19 15:55:10 localhost sm-mta[5363]: rBJ8t58n005361: rBJ8tA8m005363: DSN: Service unavailable
Dec 19 15:55:10 localhost sm-mta[5363]: rBJ8tA8m005363: to=admincit, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=30000, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent

How can I fix this ?

Thanks

Dan

Re: Setting up Gmail as Sendmail Relay

Rotem — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 09:28:36 -0000

Your comment was so helpful! solved my problem : )

Re: Setting up Gmail as Sendmail Relay

Dakar — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 10:50:22 -0000

Excellent write up.
NOTE: for folks using U-Verse, if you get time-outs to gmail. Contact Uverse tech support and have them turn off what they call "SMTP Blocking" (this is on by default)... They apparently do not understand "TCP Port 25". Once you get them to understand what you want, it's a couple of keystrokes/mouse clicks to resolve.

Re: Setting up Gmail as Sendmail Relay

Paul — Thu, 23 May 2013 23:27:05 -0000

Thanks! Worked on Ubuntu server 12.04. The only thing I was unsure about was on line 22 whether that was supposed to go in the authinfo file or not. Hard to tell where the stuff that goes in the files that follow the vi commands end. Probably makes sense for people who know linux better than me, though.

Re: Setting up Gmail as Sendmail Relay

Jojobead — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 08:30:59 -0000

THANK YOU!!!!

Re: Setting up Gmail as Sendmail Relay

Mani — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 02:42:53 -0000

I followed these steps but getting the following error.

dsn=5.0.0, stat=Service unavailable

What to do ?
Pl help.

Re: Setting up Gmail as Sendmail Relay

Guest — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 09:08:23 -0000

Excellent blog, very helpful.
Little correction:
makemap hash -o /etc/mail/authinfo < /etc/mail/authinfo

shoudl be:
makemap -r hash /etc/mail/authinfo.db < /etc/mail/authinfo

Re: Setting up Gmail as Sendmail Relay

Praveen — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 08:27:26 -0000

Awesome, just copy past all the commands and doing the steps it just works :) Love the way you present the info Chears .....

Re: Setting up Gmail as Sendmail Relay

jack — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 10:56:53 -0000

One thing that I would like to add: in your sendmail.mc should probably be without the brackets:

define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.gmail.com')dnl
so that it matches the hostname in the AuthInfo parameters in /etc/mail/authinfo

In my case, sendmail was picky about the brackets, and Gmail was throwing errors about "authentication required" since sendmail wasn't matching the hosts and doing any authentication.

So, if the SMART_HOST' parameter in sendmail.mc has brackets, then I would think the host in /etc/mail/authinfo would require brackets as well.

Re: Setting up Gmail as Sendmail Relay

Gwaugh — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 10:32:44 -0000

Thanks, worked great on CentOS release 6.3 (Final)

Re: Setting up Gmail as Sendmail Relay

Yuji Kiriki — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:13:33 -0000

Great! I had problems configuring Gmail as SMTP of Redmine, a project manager.
Thanks to you, I'm using Gmail as a relay through sendmail.

Thanks again!

Re: Setting up Gmail as Sendmail Relay

Jim — Tue, 03 May 2011 21:12:53 -0000

this worked out great, thank you!!! had to use the google application specific password... found out by reading the sendmail logs...

Re: Enabling Collaboration: A Wiki Success Story

Hector Castro — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:41:34 -0000

Individuals from pretty much every group within Wharton Computing have embraced the MediaWiki platform. It has helped make the process of writing and maintaining documentation contagious.

Brian's relentless pursuit of excellence is a huge reason for its success. Buzzwords like influence and rockstar aside – there is something to be said about individuals who are aware enough to notice collaboration weaknesses AND have the technical expertise to carry out a solution for it.

Re: Enabling Collaboration: A Wiki Success Story

Jamie P. — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:38:19 -0000

MediaWiki is AWESOME! Couldn't live without it. Awesome work on the project, and great post.

Re: Key Insights from the 2011 Wharton Web Workshop

Jamie Ly — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:19:34 -0000

Great post Brian. I also had a great time. For me, the sense of urgency which is created due to the timeline of the project is great for productivity and focusing on the important details. I am hoping to participate in some other code-camp like events this year.

Re: Sometimes All It Takes Is A Little TLC

Joe Cruz — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 15:12:16 -0000

Did you consider making this form available in the cloud? ;)

Good work Brian!

Re: Sometimes All It Takes Is A Little TLC

Becky Sweger — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:14:31 -0000

"Even if your customers are internal, spending the extra time to make day-to-day life easier is a win for everyone."

Hear hear! Too often we give internal tools the short shrift when it comes to usability (guilty). Thanks for taking the time to make these improvements.

Besides, it's useful to get feedback from fellow WCIT-eers that you can use when it's time to wow an external audience.

I'm tempted to make a network request RIGHT NOW.