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Debian ships default with Exim4 as a mail server. To use this to send messages through Google's smtp servers for GMail accounts, you need to do the following.
# dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config
-Choose YES, split configuration into small files
-Choose mail sent by SMARTHOST; received via SMTP or fetchmail
-Type System Mail Name: localhost
-Type IP Adresses to listen on for incoming SMTP connections: 127.0.0.1
-Leave Other destinations for which mail is accepted blank
-Leave Machines to relay mail for: blank
-Type Machine handling outgoing mail for this host (smarthost): smpt.gmail.com
-Choose NO, don't hide local mail name in outgoing mail.
-Chose NO, don't keep number of DNS-queries minimal (Dial-on-Demand).
Run
# vi /etc/exim4/passwd.client
and add the following lines:
{{{gmail-smtp.l.google.com:yourAccountName@gmail.com:y0uRpaSsw0RD
*.google.com:yourAccountName@gmail.com:y0uRpaSsw0RD
smtp.gmail.com:yourAccountName@gmail.com:y0uRpaSsw0RD}}}
Next, tell it what port to try. Run
# vi /etc/exim4/conf.d/transport/30_exim4-config_remote_smtp_smarthost
and add the following line after the line containing "hosts_try_auth..."
port=587
Finally, run
# update-exim4.conf
Good luck.
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