Todd Zullinger <tmz <at> pobox.com> writes: [...] > Mostly that looks sane. I don't know if you'll get errors from gmail > if you connect with the default from. Perhaps that should be changed > to something legitimate. Also, with AUTHREQUIRED=0, I don't think > that the SMTP_USER and SMTP_PASS will be used (just guessing, as I > haven't poked at the code much). > > Of course, these are only potential issues once you get past the error > below. :) [...] When root, I still get that same error. As user "thufir", r2e just hangs. [root@benetleilax .rss2email]# [root@benetleilax .rss2email]# r2e run E: error in "feedparser" feed (<unknown>:2:-1: Document is empty ) E: error in "4.1" feed (<unknown>:2:-1: Document is empty ) Fatal error: could not authenticate with mail server "smtp.gmail.com" as user "hawat.thufir" [root@benetleilax .rss2email]# ll total 24 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 379 Apr 18 01:38 config.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 417 Apr 18 01:38 config.pyc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 379 Apr 18 07:59 feeds.dat [root@benetleilax .rss2email]# cat config.py -n 1 # Find some common used config options below; all can be found all and 2 # descriptions in the section titled "### Vaguely Customizable Options ###" 3 # near the top of /usr/share/rss2email/rss2email.py 4 5 DEFAULT_FROM="hawat.thufir@xxxxxxxxx" 6 HTML_MAIL=1 7 SMTP_SEND=1 8 SMTP_SERVER="smtp.gmail.com" 9 AUTHREQUIRED=1 10 SMTP_USER="hawat.thufir" 11 SMTP_PASS="password" 12 DATE_HEADER=0 13 # PROXY="" [root@benetleilax .rss2email]# [root@benetleilax .rss2email]# r2e list default email: hawat.thufir@xxxxxxxxx 1: feedparser (default: hawat.thufir@xxxxxxxxx) 2: 4.1 (default: hawat.thufir@xxxxxxxxx) 3: http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/mcy/index.rss (default: hawat.thufir@xxxxxxxxx) [root@benetleilax .rss2email]# [root@benetleilax .rss2email]# [root@benetleilax .rss2email]# date Wed Apr 18 08:00:07 BST 2007 [root@benetleilax .rss2email]# [root@benetleilax .rss2email]# [root@benetleilax .rss2email]# however, when I do the above as user thufir, which users corresponding config file is identical, it just hangs. what's up? what's sendmail doing? anything? it doesn't appear in top. Is sendmail working? I posted the above to sendmail usenet, by the way.