email to gmail using /usr/bin/email

[René Berber]

On 1/26/2013 2:53 PM, JJ wrote:
> I have spent several hours looking for tips on using the email binary in
> Cygwin to send email via Gmail from the command line.  The man page and help
> output donÂ’t seem to clarify this.  I seem to be timing out or not
> connecting to the gmail smtp server, but I donÂ’t get any errors from email,
> even with the –V flag.  It just hangs at:
>
> Connecting to server smtp.gmail.com on port 465

Wrong port.

> Greeting the SMTP server...
> ...
> Here is the command I am using in my script.  This worked fine when I used
> another ISP, but gmail is pickier.
>
> email -r smtp.gmail.com -f <user>@gmail.com -n me -s "backup for %DATE%" -a
> d:\backup.log <sameuser>@gmail.com
>
> I ran email-config and specified my userid, password, smtp server, port
> number, and to use TLS.  I have also specified the port and used the tls
> flag in the command line.  Sending email from outlook on the same computer
> works fine.

With the same settings? I doubt it.

> Any documentation on email with SSL or tips on alternatives would be greatly
> appreciated.

Read the help pages on Gmail.
-- 
René Berber


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