SSMTP with Gmail (Google Apps)

Question

I want to set up my raid server here at home to use gmail's smtp and an email from my google apps to alert me if there is any issues.

I set up ssmtp, here is my config:

# Config file for sSMTP sendmail
#
# The person who gets all mail for userids < 1000
# Make this empty to disable rewriting.
root=email@gmail.com

# The place where the mail goes. The actual machine name is required no
# MX records are consulted. Commonly mailhosts are named mail.domain.com
mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587

# Where will the mail seem to come from?
#rewriteDomain=

# The full hostname
#hostname=ALEXANDRIA

# Are users allowed to set their own From: address?
# YES - Allow the user to specify their own From: address
# NO - Use the system generated From: address
#FromLineOverride=YES

UseSTARTTLS=YES
UseTLS=YES
AuthUser=email@gmail.com
AuthPass=****

But every time I try to send I get this error:

ssmtp: Authorization failed (454 4.7.0 Cannot authenticate due to temporary system problem. Try again later. 14sm88672bwz.5)

I have logged into the account via web, it is not locked down.

Please help me out, I have spent too long trying to figure this out already.

Answer 1

The answer is that I had special characters in my email address.

Answer 2

Looks like Gmail is having a problem with it's TLS auth. I'd do what the message says and try again later. If it persists for a while, then consider bugging Gmail support about it. It certainly doesn't seem like it's anything wrong with your end.

Answer 3

This should be simple http://www.sysadminsjourney.com/2008/09/01/use-gmail-as-an-smtp-relay-using-ssmtp

You are probably not correctly specifying your email or password.