Email with msmtp not working

[TheLion]

Hi all,

I have been having fun installing a USB for the root file system and installing PHP5, which all works very well but there isn't any sendmail program in the package, so a closer look on the openwrt web page tells me that I have to install mailsend instead..

opkg update
opkg install msmtp

This installs just fine and then I edit the config file for my smpt server. The server details are here:
Protocol: POP3 with SSL

Server/Hostname/Address: mail.uk2.net
Username: you@yourdomain.com
Password: Your Password (Can be reset in Dashboard or CHI)
Incoming Port: 995
Outgoing Port: 465
Outgoing Server Requires Authentication
SSL: Enabled
Secure Password Authentication: No

I then set up the config file at /etc/msmtprc like this:

$cat /etc/msmtprc 

account default

host mail.uk2.net
port 465
auth on
user user@my domain here.com   <-- my real username login here
password ***  <--  My real password here
logfile /var/log/msmtp.log

when I run the following command with real email addresses, I get the following:

# echo -e "Subject: Test Mail\r\n\r\nThis is a test mail, please let me know if it works..!" |msmtp --debug 
--from me@my domain.com -t recepient@my domain.com


loaded system configuration file /etc/msmtprc
ignoring user configuration file /root/.msmtprc: No such file or directory
falling back to default account
using account default from /etc/msmtprc
host = mail.uk2.net
port = 465
proxy host = (not set)
proxy port = 0
timeout = off
protocol = smtp
domain = localhost
auth = choose
user = me@my domain.com
password = *
passwordeval = (not set)
ntlmdomain = (not set)
tls = off
tls_starttls = on
tls_trust_file = (not set)
tls_crl_file = (not set)
tls_fingerprint = (not set)
tls_key_file = (not set)
tls_cert_file = (not set)
tls_certcheck = on
tls_min_dh_prime_bits = (not set)
tls_priorities = (not set)
auto_from = off
maildomain = (not set)
from = me@my domain.com
add_missing_from_header = on
add_missing_date_header = on
remove_bcc_headers = on
dsn_notify = (not set)
dsn_return = (not set)
logfile = /var/log/msmtp.log
syslog = (not set)
aliases = (not set)
reading recipients from the command line and the mail
msmtp: network read error: Connection reset by peer
msmtp: could not send mail (account default from /etc/msmtprc)
#

Does anybody know why it fails and have you had any experience with mailsend?

Thanks in advance for any input..

[Kit Bishop]

@TheLion Don't know if it is of any use to you, but there is a tutorial on the Omega Wiki concerning sending emails using Python that can be found at: https://wiki.onion.io/Tutorials/Sending-Emails-With-Python

[TheLion]

Thanks.. - That did work, but like a muppet, I meant msmtp not mailsend.. Sorry, I have altered the initial post to install msmtp instead. I wish to use this because I believe it is the replacement for sendmail in PHP. I am writing a web app to send an email from the web server in PHP.

Glad to see the email send though. If I can't get this to work, I may think about how to integrate mailsend into PHP as well.

[TheLion]

Hey... I have it working tonight..

I will do a tutorial from factory default of what I have done tomorrow as I am stopping on a high point for now and I will post a link to it from this one.

I have made a PHP web page that has the user fill in a feedback form and email it back to my regular email account over smtp using msmtp.