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Mailx and Gmail nss config dir

I am trying to send mail from a Linux command line using the mailx command. I can send from my local domain no problem but I want to set up mail to send from my Gmail account as well as receive mail sent to my Gmail account.

After configuring my mail.rc like so:

account gmail {
set smtp=smtps://smtp.gmail.com:587
set smtp-auth=login
set smtp-auth-user=USERNAME@gmail.com
set smtp-auth-password=PASSWORD
set ssl-verify=ignore
}

I would get the error:

Resolving host smtp.gmail.com . . . done.
Connecting to 74.125.25.109 . . . connected.
Missing "nss-config-dir" variable.
"/home/USERNAME/dead.letter" 11/354
. . . message not sent.

After looking up what the "nss-config-dir" was here, I located the certN.db and keyN.db files and added that to my mail.rc like so:

account gmail {
set smtp=smtps://smtp.gmail.com:587
set smtp-auth=login
set smtp-auth-user=USERNAME@gmail.com
set smtp-auth-password=PASSWORD
set ssl-verify=ignore
set nss-config-dir=/home/USER/.mozilla/firefox/LOCATION.default
}

now when I try to send mail using this command:

echo "sent from gmail account" | mailx -v -A gmail -s "Command line mail" SomeEmail@domain.com

I get this:

Resolving host smtp.gmail.com . . . done.
Connecting to 74.125.25.108 . . . connected.
COMMENT-->then it waits there for about 5 mins then spits out this:
SSL/TLS handshake failed: Unknown error -5938.
"/home/USER/dead.letter" 11/354
. . . message not sent.

Does anyone know how to either:
A) Set up mailx/mail.rc to access Gmail but ignore needing the nss-config-dir BS?
B) Set up mailx/mail.rc so that the nss-config-dir actually works?
C) Set up mailx/mail.rc to access Gmail in another way(POP maybe -don't know if that's an option, haven't looked into it?)

Any help would be super appreciated.

Solution

  • Thank you for this it gave me a way to find an even better solution. Supposedly these keyN.db and certN.db are databases of trusted certificate authorities.

    I did a simple

    find / -name "cert*.db"

    to find where on my system has the keyN.db and certN.db files on my system (Fedora 20).
    I found them under /etc/pki/nssdb/.