Sending email via Gmail relay through postfix
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Sending email via Gmail relay through postfix
To send email via Gmail relay through postfix use:
- Configure gmail to use less secure apps using:
- Login into Gmail account and go to Settings -> Accounts -> Google Account Settings
- In "Google Account Settings" go to Sign-in and Security.
- In Sign-in and security change "Allow less secure apps:" to ON
- yum -y install cyrus-sasl cyrus-sasl-plain cyrus-sasl-lib postfix mailx
- edit /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd and put something like
- smtp.gmail.com <gmail-email-address>:<gmail-password>
- Create hash postmap of sasl_password using:
- cd /etc/postfix
- chmod 600 sasl_passwd
- postmap hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
- edit /etc/postfix/main.cf and after relayhost comment lines insert
- smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
- smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
- smtp_sasl_security_options =
- smtp_tls_security_level = may
- relayhost = smtp.gmail.com:587
- service postfix restart
- echo "Test email using postfix" | mail -s "Gmail relay test" saurabh@sbarjatiya.com
- Look for successful email being sent or errors logs using:
- mailq
- tail -50 /var/log/maillog
- Logging into above configured "Less secure Gmail" account via browser also helps
To troubleshoot look at /var/log/maillog. In log lines look at value of ctladdr such as 'ctladdr=saurabh (501/501)'. Then look at /var/mail/saurabh or login as user saurabh and use 'mail' command to see error message sent by Gmail server.
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