Mail::Webmail::Gmail has a date of 2006 on it. I'm going to guess that a 16 year old module probably isn't compatible with Google's current implementation of webmail. And yes, any modern "web" module should just depend on LWP::UserAgent and not have a direct dependency on SSLeay. (with the exception of event-driven modules which often have to re-invent things themselves)

If you want to inspect a Gmail mailbox, you can currently go into Google settings and enable "insecure" protocols (for i.e. IMAP and SMTP) and then use Perl's IMAP modules to interact with the mailbox. This support is supposedly going away some time, but works for now. I don't know if there is a native API client for Google's mail back-end, in Perl.

When you configure the outgoing SMTP host, you need to first make sure that that host is actually running an SMTP server. "fourth" looks like the host name of your raspberry Pi, so you should first make sure you installed Postfix correctly. But also, if you installed postfix locally, then you can deliver mail directly to postfix without using SMTP at all, and test this from the command line using the 'sendmail' or 'mail' commands. Also, using SSL from a local service to a local service is unnecessary complication. SSL needs a certificate, and it won't match for the local host name, forcing you to also set flags to disable host name checks.

If you want to send mail through your gmail account, then the SMTP host would be whatever gmail defines for that, and you'd need to authenticate using your gmail password (but that also requires you to go into gmail settings and enable "insecure" clients)

None of this yet touches on *receiving* email to your raspberry Pi, like giving the raspberry Pi its own DNS name with MX (mail exchange) records. That also involves Postfix (a very different configuration) and some way to locally store the email, like Dovecot IMAP.

In reply to Re: getting SMTP capability working by NERDVANA
in thread getting SMTP capability working by Aldebaran

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