gmane.mail.msmtp.user

network read error

Ashutosh Kumar — 2013-05-13T03:26:22

Hi ,

I am getting below error in msmtp logs :

errormsg='network read error: the operation timed out' exitcode=EX_IOERR

I get this failure when authentication is enabled . When authentication is
not enabled , I do not get this error and emails are sent successfully
which tells me that there is no network problem.

Any clue would be appreciated.

Below is the config file I am using in case of failure :


account default
timeout 20
host 10.99.193.72
port 25
logfile /tmp/msmtp.log
domain [10.182.65.228]
auto_from off
from ashut-42MFMW1< at >10.182.65.228
tls_cert_file /etc/certs/host.crt
tls_key_file cv/private/host.key
tls_starttls on
tls_force_sslv3 off
tls_certcheck off
tls on
auth login
user "ashut< at >smtp2010.com"
password "ashu_123"





thanks
ashu
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cron mails always as attachement

Andre Bischof — 2013-05-08T12:49:09

Hi,

I use
ii msmtp 1.4.28-1 amd64

which works fine except one thing - mails send to me when a backup is
done (via backupninja) come always as attachement. The original mail has
no text, only an attachement without a name. When I open/save it, the
dialog says:

You like to open the file: fetch>UID>.INBOX>21384

The mail shows then as a text file:

success -- /etc/backup.d/10.sys
success -- /etc/backup.d/20.mysql
*warning* -- /etc/backup.d/90.rdiff

== warnings from /etc/backup.d/90.rdiff ==

Warning: Permanently added the ECDSA host key for IP address
'78.34.178.2' to the list of known hosts.
Info: Removing backups older than 500D days succeeded.
Info: Successfully finished backing up source

In the mailheader I have:

User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.5 6/20/10
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

msmtp.log looks ok for me:
May 08 09:48:54 host=smtp.gmail.com tls=on auth=on user=webmaster< at >domain.com from=webmaster< at >domain.com recipients=webmaster< at >domain.com mailsize=701 smtpstatus=250 smtpmsg='250 2.0.0 OK 1367999309 bj12sm43570186eeb.8 - gsmtp' exitcode=EX_OK

I'm not quite sure wether is all about msmtp or if it is about fetchmail, which get's the mails from the google account msmtp sends to - I simply have not enough knowledge to track things down myself.

Maybe one of you can put me in the right direction?

Any help is greatly appreciated, if you need further infos pls let me know.

Cheers
Frisco

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msmtp 1.4.31 is released!

Martin Lambers — 2013-04-22T18:37:59

Hello everyone,

msmtp 1.4.31 is released!

This release includes a new version of the msmtpq script and fixes
building the documentation with texinfo version 5.x.

Best regards,
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Compiling msmtp on CentOS 6.3 server

Phil Dobbin — 2013-04-09T23:39:47

Hi, all.

I'm attempting to compile the latest msmtp from the git repo on
Sourceforge on CentOS 6.3 64-bit server.

When I run `autoconf' I get:

`$ autoconf
configure.ac:34: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow
See the Autoconf documentation.
configure.ac:35: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_SILENT_RULES
configure.ac:45: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_GNU_GETTEXT
configure.ac:117: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONDITIONAL`

& if I run `configure` after that I get:

`$ ./configure
configure: error: cannot find install-sh or install.sh in build-aux
"."/build-aux`

I'm generally pretty good at compiling stuff but am brand new with
autoconf. Can anybody give me any pointers as to to how to approach
debugging this?

Many thanks,

Cheers,

  Phil...

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Log file and year information (patch wrong!)

Igor Sosa Mayor — 2013-04-02T15:08:10

Sorry, the previous patch was wrong. It should be like this one.

The reason for asking for the year information is that I am planning to
parse with perl and analyze with R the log file and the year information
could be interesting.

Log file and year information

Igor Sosa Mayor — 2013-04-02T14:55:11

Hi,

is there a reason for not putting the year in the logfile? 

I am not a very expert programmer, but I think this small change should
do it, shouldn't?

Thanks for providing msmtp!

Best

Igor

Error in autoreconf -i

Joe Philip Ninan — 2013-03-24T10:41:00

Hi,
I was trying to install msmtp using the instructions given in the following
page.
http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/download.html
At the "autoreconf -i" command It filas saying couldn't open direcotry 'm4'
I have the latest versions of automake-1.13 and autoconf-2.69 installed.
Following is the output i get.
-------------------OUTPUT
   joe< at >Porteus-atma:~$ git clone git://
msmtp.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/msmtp/msmtp
Cloning into 'msmtp'...
remote: Counting objects: 3288, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1624/1624), done.
remote: Total 3288 (delta 2542), reused 2168 (delta 1659)
Receiving objects: 100% (3288/3288), 1.35 MiB | 358 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (2542/2542), done.

   joe< at >Porteus-atma:~$ cd msmtp/
   joe< at >Porteus-atma:~/msmtp$ autoreconf -i
configure.ac:45: warning: macro 'AM_GNU_GETTEXT' not found in library
aclocal: error: couldn't open directory 'm4': No such file or directory
autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1
-----------------------------------END OF OUTPUT

What does this error mean?
I tried creating an empty m4/ directory.
Then the autoreconf -i gives the following error
---------------------------
    joe< at >Porteus-atma:~/msmtp$ mkdir m4
    joe< at >Porteus-atma:~/msmtp$ autoreconf -i
configure.ac:45: warning: macro 'AM_GNU_GETTEXT' not found in library
configure.ac:45: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_GNU_GETTEXT
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
autoreconf: /usr/local/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
-------------------------------------END

How can i solve this issue?

I am using Porteus distro.
Linux Kernel (3.5.2)

Thanks,
joe

HTML email possible?

Adam Merrifield — 2013-03-15T16:14:16

I've searched Google extensively and haven't found any information stating it was possible, but I thought I'd ask here just in case. Please don't hate. :) Is HTML email possible with msmtp? 

tnx

Error when msmtp is used for any other port than 25

Ashutosh Kumar — 2013-03-12T17:00:41

Hi ,

I am getting error when I am trying to use any other port than 25. Here is
the debug log I am getting  :



Mar 12 12:49:46 host=172.94.196.72 tls=on auth=on user=ahsu< at >smtp2012.comfrom=
ashu< at >172.35.155.230 recipients=ahsu< at >smtp2012.com
errormsg='cannot connect to 172.94.196.72, port 26: Connection refused'
exitcode=EX_TEMPFAIL


I tried with several ports ...but the result was same.

Any suggestions what could be possibly causing this.

Thanks
ashutosh
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How to configure msmtp for port other than 25 withoutTLS

Ashutosh Kumar — 2013-03-06T14:17:55

Hi,

**

** **

How can we define port other than 25 , without using TLS in msmtp
configuration file.****

** **

To be more precise , I would like to use below configuration file in my
program and it is not working.****

** **

** **

**/* Configuration file */

 **

account default****

timeout 20****

host 10.255.2.128****

port 26****

domain us.dell.com****

auto_from off****

auth off****

from new-bullit-idrac-7654321< at > <new-bullit-idrac-7654321< at >anoa.com>
us.dell.com**

** **

**

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msmtpq issues

cg — 2013-02-13T13:41:39

Greetings,

I've been immersed/distracted for a while and hadn't looked at the
list ; apologies for the delay. I've put together a modified version
of msmtpq to try to take into account all of the msmtpq issues that
have come up recently.

I am trying a means of setting environment variables before the msmtpq
invocation to allow for various possibilities, that is, for mutt :

normal invocation    : set sendmail = "/path/to/msmtpq"
alternate invocation : set sendmail = "OPTION=t /path/to/msmtpq"

Trying the following options ; please let me know whether they make
sense, are not sufficient, etc. :

set sendmail = "EMAIL_QUEUE_QUIET=t /path/to/msmtpq"
                 # use queue ; suppress messages and 'chatter'
                 # good, apparently, for use w/emacs

set sendmail = "EMAIL_CONN_NOTEST=t /path/to/msmtpq"
                 # use queue without a net connection test

set sendmail = "EMAIL_CONN_TEST=p /path/to/msmtpq"
                 # use queue with ping connection test (the default)
                 # ping 'debian.org'
set sendmail = "EMAIL_CONN_TEST=P /path/to/msmtpq"
                 # use queue with faster ping connection test
                 # (to an IP address, without a DNS lookup)
                 # ping '8.8.8.8'
set sendmail = "EMAIL_CONN_TEST=n /path/to/msmtpq"
                 # use queue with netcat connection test
                 # (netcat must be installed on user's system)
set sendmail = "EMAIL_CONN_TEST=s /path/to/msmtpq"
                 # use queue with sh sockets connection test
                 # (this does *not* work on Debian systems
                 #  socket use is not compiled into bash for
                 #  security on multiuser systems - it may not be
                 #  a serious consideration, however, on
                 #  single user workstations - e.g. laptops -
                 #  or on embedded systems)

Naturally, more than one option can be enabled in the invocation.

The new version is being sent to Martin for release with the next
version of msmtp but if you need the functionality (or want to
test/play with it) please post or email me and I'll send a copy.

Thanks ; please let me know...

Best wishes,

Chris

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msmtp and getting flagged as spammer

Kasimir Knallkopf — 2013-02-05T13:24:18

Hi,

How are you using msmtp on a mobile station without having your mail flagged as spam? Depending on which WIFI I'm connected at the moment when I'm sending my mail, my IP might already be on a spammer blacklist. Another problem is that I don't have a domain name set for when I'm sending email.

There must be a solution, because for example Thunderbird sends emails without having this problem.

These are some of the spamassassin rules that get triggered:
 
FSL_HELO_NON_FQDN_1,HELO_LOCALHOST,RDNS_LOCALHOST (I don't set a domain name in .msmtprc, however, I don't always know the domain name)

RCVD_IN_RP_RNBL,RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL (the hotel IP is in the spammer database)

Any ideas? I really like msmtp.

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[msmtpq] mail [...] from queue ;couldn't be sent - host not connected

Marcelo Laia — 2013-01-11T21:24:00

Itry to send mail with msmtpq and got this error message:

mail [ 2013-01-11-16.19.03 ] from queue ; couldn't be sent - host not connected

However, if I sent from command line by:

echo "a test message" | msmtp -a gmail me< at >gmail.com

or form mutt without msmtpq, message was delivered normally.

This symptoms have started from 5 or 6 days a go.

Hoe I could debug it to find the issue?

Can you help me?

default Content-Type

Philippe Naudin — 2013-01-10T13:05:43

Hello,

A cron job output some warning with accented characters. This warning
is a single line :
Serveur présent jouy.inra.fr = 138.102.1.1, mais client pas à l'heure
(it warns about a NTP server completely desynchronized).

This warning is sent by msmtp (sendmail is a symlink to msmtp) to a
SMTP server (postfix).

In the message, there is a header :
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968

I would like to get :
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

Is there a way to force the default charset with msmtp ?

Thanks,

Race in msmtp-enqueue?

Andreas Jaeger — 2012-12-31T10:03:29

I'm using msmtp 1.28 and noticed that I lose emails - they are just not
send.


Below shows a simple test with 4 mail invocations - as you see the first
three times, I get four new elements in the queue but then suddenly only 2.
So, this looks like some race in queing of messages.

mail is configured to use msmtp-enqueue.

Andreas

aj< at >example.com;echo "Test3" |mail -s test3 aj< at >example.com;echo "Test4"
|mail -s test4 aj< at >example.com;
4
aj< at >example.com;echo "Test3" |mail -s test3 aj< at >example.com;echo "Test4"
|mail -s test4 aj< at >example.com;
8
aj< at >example.com;echo "Test3" |mail -s test3 aj< at >example.com;echo "Test4"
|mail -s test4 aj< at >example.com;
12
aj< at >example.com;echo "Test3" |mail -s test3 aj< at >example.com;echo "Test4"
|mail -s test4 aj< at >example.com;
14

2012-12-30-20.29.44-1.mail   2012-12-30-20.29.48-2.mail
2012-12-30-20.29.50-3.mail
2012-12-30-20.29.44-1.msmtp  2012-12-30-20.29.48-2.msmtp
2012-12-30-20.29.50-3.msmtp
2012-12-30-20.29.44-2.mail   2012-12-30-20.29.48-3.mail
2012-12-30-20.29.50.mail
2012-12-30-20.29.44-2.msmtp  2012-12-30-20.29.48-3.msmtp
2012-12-30-20.29.50.msmtp
2012-12-30-20.29.44.mail     2012-12-30-20.29.48.mail
2012-12-30-20.29.53-1.mail
2012-12-30-20.29.44.msmtp    2012-12-30-20.29.48.msmtp
2012-12-30-20.29.53-1.msmtp
2012-12-30-20.29.45.mail     2012-12-30-20.29.50-1.mail
2012-12-30-20.29.53.mail
2012-12-30-20.29.45.msmtp    2012-12-30-20.29.50-1.msmtp
2012-12-30-20.29.53.msmtp
2012-12-30-20.29.48-1.mail   2012-12-30-20.29.50-2.mail
2012-12-30-20.29.48-1.msmtp  2012-12-30-20.29.50-2.msmtp

Bug: external auth via certificate only doesn't work

Thomas Weißschuh — 2012-12-22T11:22:10

Hi,

while trying to set up certificate only authentication msmtp always
died with the following error message:

msmtp: the server does not support authentication

This is because my server (postfix) doesn't announce authentication
methods after completing the STARTTLS handshake.

If I read the docs correctly external auth is not meant to be used
together with another, interal auth method.

The following patch removes the auth check if external auth is used:

diff --git a/src/msmtp.c b/src/msmtp.c
index fe57010..f369b5e 100644
--- a/src/msmtp.c
+++ b/src/msmtp.c
< at >< at > -663,7 +663,7 < at >< at > int msmtp_rmqs(account_t *acc, int debug, const char *rmqs_argument,
     }
 
     /* authenticate */
-    if (acc->auth_mech)
+    if (acc->auth_mech && strcmp(acc->auth_mech, "EXTERNAL") != 0)
     {
         if (!(srv.cap.flags & SMTP_CAP_AUTH))
         {
< at >< at > -1731,7 +1731,7 < at >< at > int msmtp_sendmail(account_t *acc, list_t *recipients,
         return e;
     }
     /* authenticate */
-    if (acc->auth_mech)
+    if (acc->auth_mech && strcmp(acc->auth_mech, "EXTERNAL") != 0)
     {
         if (!(srv.cap.flags & SMTP_CAP_AUTH))
         {


Note:
The check in line 1735 was the one making the trouble.
I patched the on in line 667 only because the if-block looks the same.

Thanks for msmtp and regards,
Thomas

from header domain not set when using msmtp with cron

Chris Purves — 2012-11-30T01:39:32

I'm having problems with the output of cron jobs.  cron sets the From 
header as root, but does not include the domain.  My email is then 
rejected because it doesn't include a proper email address in the From 
header.

Is there a way I can force the From header to include the domain?

help with msmtp !

horse_rivers — 2012-11-20T05:38:12

hi,  
  when I send mail with msmtp,it take this error message to me :

 msmtp: envelope from address xxx  not accepted by the server

msmtp: server message: 553 authentication is required,smtp7,DsmowECZ_U6a66pQw8i2Ag--.525S2 1353378714

msmtp: could not send mail (account default from /usr/local/msmtp/etc/msmtprc)

the msmtp config file is right seted,host address and account is seted correctly!


is there some advise?

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help with msmtp !

horse_rivers — 2012-11-20T05:38:12

hi,  
  when I send mail with msmtp,it take this error message to me :

 msmtp: envelope from address xxx  not accepted by the server

msmtp: server message: 553 authentication is required,smtp7,DsmowECZ_U6a66pQw8i2Ag--.525S2 1353378714

msmtp: could not send mail (account default from /usr/local/msmtp/etc/msmtprc)

the msmtp config file is right seted,host address and account is seted correctly!


is there some advise?

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msmtp 1.4.30 is released!

Martin Lambers — 2012-10-21T12:21:33

Hello everyone,

msmtp 1.4.30 is released!

This release fixes a bug introduced in version 1.4.29 that broke the
-t/--read-recipients option when --read-envelope-from was used.

If you use version 1.4.29, please update. Sorry for the inconvenience. 

Thanks to Nicolas Pouillard for reporting and analyzing this bug.

Best regards,
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Bug introduced in version 1.4.29

Nicolas Pouillard — 2012-10-19T19:46:30

Hello,

Consider the following email example:

$ cat >test <<EOF
From: from< at >example.com
To: to< at >example.com

EOF

The only thing to notice is that "From:" appears before "To:".

$ msmtp --read-recipients --read-envelope-from < test
msmtp: no recipients found

The thing is that the "bug fix" introduced in 1.4.29 also introduce this
bug.

Namely line 1477 in msmtp.c

"if (from_hdr >= 0)" replaces "if (from_hdr == 0)" which then skips the
reading of the forthcoming recipients.

Assuming  my  conclusions are  correct,  I  consider this  bug  critical
since this  makes the  flags --read-recipients  and --read-envelope-from
incompatible.

Best regards,