[kwlug-disc] msmtp email to gmail not landing - ideas?

[Mark Steffen]

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On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 2:16 PM, B. S. <bs27975 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I believe this has now probably been solved.
>
> gmail wants addresses in the body of the message, not just the headers.
>
> So: echo Body | sendmail -s Subject recipient at example.com
>
> is insufficient, even though all msg headers are proper.
>
> Instead: echo -e "From: me at mine.com\nTo: the at other.guy\nSubject:
> Topic\nBody" | sendmail recipient at example.com
>
>
>
> On 03/30/2017 12:00 PM, B.S. wrote:
>
>> So on a Debian Jessie machine, I'm trying to get system notification
>> mail messages out to real e-mail so I actually find out something
>> happened. Like an unattended-upgrade failure.
>>
>> I understand that default installs auto install localhost mail
>> facilities only. So I've installed msmtp and it's largely entirely
>> working.
>>
>> However, e-mail to gmail accounts never seem to land. @live.ca just
>> works, instantly even. Yahoo and another non-gmail provider too.
>>
>> In all cases, cpanel2.indieserve.net swallows up the message without
>> error.
>>
>> Just nothing ever arrives when sent to @gmail.com.
>>
>> Anyone have any ideas?
>>
>> Or is this something needing configuration on mail.kwlug.org, like DKIM,
>> or some other bizarreness?
>>
>> Thanks for any thoughts.
>>
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