SOLVED Using gmail account and Sendmail to send voice message mail

[alevene]

Our system was running happily sending out phone messages using a gmail account... and then it stopped. The error message is essentially - incorrect password.

I tried using this original script without success - http://pbxinaflash.com/community/in...ll-gmail-as-smtp-relay-host-for-sendmail.974/

The exact message is
----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to smtp.gmail.com:
>>> AUTH dialogue
<<< 535-5.7.8 Username and Password not accepted. Learn more at
<<< 535 5.7.8 http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?answer=14257 t66sm4966177yhc.45
- gsmtp
>>> MAIL From:<[email protected]> SIZE=558
<<< 530-5.5.1 Authentication Required. Learn more at
<<< 530 5.5.1 http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?answer=14257 t66sm4966177yhc.45
- gsmtp
554 5.0.0 Service unavailable

I tried the user name with and without @gmail.com. The password is correct.

Any ideas?

 

[randy7376]

alevene

Since it's not quite clear in your post, I'll ask the obvious: Have you tried logging into the account via Google's web interface to see if it works that way?

 

[alevene]

Yes, the gmail works fine using the same name and password. I did more research today and found that the SMTP system stopped forwarding email on April 10th. The OpenSSL "fix" to Heartbleed was released a few days earlier so I suspect that the PIAF was updated at this time. That may not be the reason, but the dates are close. I tried changing the gmail password to 8 alphanumeric characters in case it PIAF didn't like a longer, more complex password without effect.

Ideas?

 

[alevene]

FYI, I used this script -
cd /etc/mail
hostname -f > genericsdomain
touch genericstable
makemap -r hash genericstable.db < genericstable
mv sendmail.mc sendmail.mc.original
wget http://pbxinaflash.net/source/sendmail/sendmail.mc.gmail
cp sendmail.mc.gmail sendmail.mc
mkdir -p auth
chmod 700 auth
cd auth
echo AuthInfo:smtp.gmail.com \"U:smmsp\" \"I:[email protected]\" \"P:workinggooglepassword\" \"MLAIN\" > client-info
echo AuthInfo:smtp.gmail.com:587 \"U:smmsp\" \"I:[email protected]\" \"workinggooglepassword\" \"MLAIN\" >> client-info
echo AuthInfo:smtp.gmail.com:465 \"U:smmsp\" \"I:[email protected]\" \"P:workinggooglepassword\" \"MLAIN\" >> client-info
chmod 600 client-info
makemap -r hash client-info.db < client-info
cd ..
make
service sendmail restart

 

[steve54301]

If I remember correctly there was a small issue with how it echo'd info into the /etc/mail/auth/client-info file something with the quotes was hosed up.

It needs to look like this.

AuthInfo:smtp.gmail.com "U:smmsp" "I:username" "P:password" "M:PLAIN"
AuthInfo:smtp.gmail.com:587 "U:smmsp" "I:username" "P:password" "M:PLAIN"

 

[alevene]

I was very careful with the client-info file. It is correct. I downgraded the OpenSSL to the prior version without any good outcome so I upgraded it back to current version. Here are the OpenSSL versions -

openssl 1.0.1e-16.el6_5.7 - the updated file

m2crypto 0.20.2-9.el6
openssl-devel 1.0.1e-16.el6_5.7
openssl-perl 1.0.1e-16.el6_5.7
openssl-static 1.0.1e-16.el6_5.7
openssl098e 0.9.8e-17.el6.centos.2
perl-Crypt-SSLeay 0.57-16.el6

I checked the password change logs and found that everything stopped working, the same day I changed the gmail password on Google! So there may be a bug in the system. How do I manually remove the entire subsystem so that I can rebuild the linkage from PIAF SMTPing the gmail account?

 

[alevene]

It works again!

As I noticed that when I moved to a very long password, the system broke so I jsut tried a 7 digit alpha-numeric change at google and the system started to work again. Yes, 7 characters is not that many but it works. I'm quitting while ahead.

Thanks for your idea prompts.

 

[randy7376]

alevene

I had read your replies, this morning. But, work got in the way... Glad you were able to get it working!

 

[alevene]

Just to be clear for others who have this problem. It appears that PIAF can only deal with Google passwords up to eight characters. I haven't tested all of the maximum eight character passwords combinations (alpha, numeric, symbols, etc) as I don't have time but if you want to experiment, please post to this thread.

 

[PBX@Home]

I have just looked at my configuration and I have a 15 alpha-numeric (no special characters) set on my GV account that I use with PIAF.