[solved] s-nail 14.7-1 doesn't work

Question

I'm using setup outlined in the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/S-nail and it works just fine with older versions of s-nail (downgraded to test). I use s-nail to send e-mail to my gmail account, usually with an attachment.
$ echo "Done" | mailx -vs <subject> <address>@gmail.com
Resolving host smtp.gmail.com:587 ... done.
Connecting to 173.194.66.108:587 ... connected.
smtp-server: 530-5.5.1 Authentication Required. Learn more at
smtp-server: 530 5.5.1 http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?answer=14257 <some letters and numbers> - gsmtp
"/home/karol/dead.letter" 11/274
... message not sent.
Can anyone translate the recent changes into plain English?
http://sourceforge.net/p/s-nail/s-nail/s-nail-users/
http://sdaoden.users.sourceforge.net/code.html#s-nail
I can post the output of a working s-nail 14.6.4-1, but I don't know which parts (if any) should I redact.
Last edited by karol (2014-06-17 22:22:53)

Answer 1

Hello, this is my first post here, so sorry for the format..
Karol wrote to the s-nail-users@ list, find below my answer:
  |set sendmail="/usr/bin/mailx"
  |set smtp=smtp.gmail.com:587
  |set smtp-use-starttls
  |set ssl-verify=ignore
  |set smtp-auth=login
  |set smtp-auth-user=myusername
  |set smtp-auth-password=mypassword
  |but I can't get it to work with s-nail 14.7
  |I don't understand what changes do I have to make in order to be able
  |to send messages to my gmail account, which is what I use s-nail for.
Hmmm, well, so i've tried again like so:
  # ~/.s-nailrc:
  set folder=arena/data/mail record=+sent nostealthmua
  account a1 {
     set v15-compat ssl-method=auto
     set smtp=smtp.gmail.com \
        smtp-auth=plain \
        user=USER \
        password=PASS \
        smtp-use-starttls
  account a2 {
     set ssl-method=auto
     set smtp=smtp.gmail.com \
        smtp-auth=plain \
        smtp-auth-user=USER \
        smtp-auth-password=PASS \
        smtp-use-starttls
  account a3 {
     set v15-compat ssl-method=auto
     set smtp=smtp://USER:[email protected]:587 \
        smtp-auth=plain \
        smtp-use-starttls
and got
  ?0[steffen@sherwood nail.git]$ echo "Done" |
  ./s-nail -Aa1 -vs test2-1 [email protected]
  Resolving host smtp.gmail.com:smtp ... done.
  Connecting to 74.125.136.109:smtp ... connected.
   Certificate depth 3
   Certificate depth 0
    issuer = /C=US/O=Google Inc/CN=Google Internet Authority G2
  Comparing DNS: <smtp.gmail.com>; should <smtp.gmail.com>
  ?0[steffen@sherwood nail.git]$ echo "Done" |
  ./s-nail -Aa2 -vs test2-2 [email protected]
  Resolving host smtp.gmail.com:smtp ... done.
  Connecting to 74.125.136.109:smtp ... connected.
   Certificate depth 3
    issuer = /C=US/O=Google Inc/CN=Google Internet Authority G2
  Comparing DNS: <smtp.gmail.com>; should <smtp.gmail.com>
  ?0[steffen@sherwood nail.git]$
  ?0[steffen@sherwood nail.git]$ echo "Done" |
  ./s-nail -Aa3 -vs test2-3 [email protected]
  Resolving host smtp.gmail.com:587 ... done.
  Connecting to 74.125.136.109:587 ... connected.
   Certificate depth 3
    issuer = /C=US/O=Google Inc/CN=Google Internet Authority G2
  Comparing DNS: <smtp.gmail.com>; should <smtp.gmail.com>
  ?0[steffen@sherwood nail.git]$
So i'm a bit out of ideas at the moment.
However, Tarqi said something wise and Wzyboy edited the Wiki
accordingly: the implicit relation of
    *smtp-auth*
      If set to `login', or if unset and smtp-auth-user is set, `AUTH
      LOGIN' is used
has actually been dropped.  I didn't realize that this could
really make some configurations unusable...
Maybe the Wiki should only show the new configuration anyway.
EOQ
So yes, i looked at the ArchLinux Wiki a while back but didn't realize that the example config made use of that implicit relation.
Sorry for the inconvenience!
Confirmation that it works for you would be nice.