Kernel Dev Blog 3 -- Email
4/5/2020
So it took my a while to setup mutt and email on the VM machine. They were installed on day one but not configured until now and it had some workarounds.
In Gmail I enabled IMAP and got the configuration setup as it specified.
I setup the ~/.esmptrc
file with the following information so it could send through Gmail
identity "m*****n@gmail.com"
hostname smtp.gmail.com:587
username "m*****n@gmail.com"
password "*************"
starttls required
In the ~/.muttrc
file i configured it to send through esmtp
set sendmail="/usr/bin/esmtp"
set envelope_from=yes
set from="Jordan Savant <m*****n@gmail.com>"
set use_from=yes
set edit_headers=yes
Then I ran mutt
and built some mail with m
but was receiving an error of:
mx_get_magic(): unable to stat /var/mail/doomguy No such file or directory
and
Error sending message, child exited 70 (Internal error.).
After some digging I needed to get the first error to go away by making it a file I had permissions to read and write to (not a directory)
And I had to enable "Less Secure Apps" under my Google Account at https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps
(this was not well documented and found on a random file)
At that point it began working