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Asked: 2020-11-13 05:57:20 +0800 CST

msmtp installed as a system account not working with libsecret

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I have successfully setup a system config to send emails using msmtp. Below is the configuration (located in /etc/msmtprc).

account default
auth           on
tls            on
tls_trust_file /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
logfile        /var/log/msmtp

# gmail
host           smtp.gmail.com
port           587
from           <account>@gmail.com
user           <account>
password       <password>

# Syslog logging with facility LOG_MAIL instead of the default LOG_USER
syslog LOG_MAIL

I wanted to use libsecret to not have the password showing, so I did the following

secret-tool store --label=msmtp host smtp.gmail.com service smtp user <account>

I verified that the password was stored by typing:

secret-tool lookup host smtp.gmail.com

I then modified /etc/msmtprc as follows:

account default
auth           on
tls            on
tls_trust_file /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
logfile        /var/log/msmtp

# gmail
host           smtp.gmail.com
port           587
from           <account>@gmail.com
user           <account>

# Syslog logging with facility LOG_MAIL instead of the default LOG_USER
syslog LOG_MAIL

This is not working.

If I dump /var/log/msmtp I get the following:

Nov 12 14:36:30 host=smtp.gmail.com tls=on auth=on user= [email protected] recipients= smtpstatus=535 smtpmsg='535-5.7.8 Username and Password not accepted. Learn more at\n535 5.7.8 https://support.google.com/mail/?p=BadCredentials n10sm6743893wrv.77 - gsmtp' errormsg='authentication failed (method PLAIN)' exitcode=EX_NOPERM

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

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1 Answers

  1. In the file /etc/msmtprc I replaced password with passwordeval, pointing this to the libsecret command to extract the password.

    account default
auth           on
tls            on
tls_trust_file /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
logfile        /var/log/msmtp

# gmail
host           smtp.gmail.com
port           587
from           <account>@gmail.com
user           <account>
passwordeval   "secret-tool lookup host smtp.gmail.com"

# Syslog logging with facility LOG_MAIL instead of the default LOG_USER
syslog LOG_MAIL
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