How to send email using simple SMTP commands via Gmail?

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to send over gmail, you need to use an encrypted connection. this is not possible with telnet alone, but you can use tools like openssl

either connect using the starttls option in openssl to convert the plain connection to encrypted…

openssl s_client -starttls smtp -connect smtp.gmail.com:587 -crlf -ign_eof

or connect to a ssl sockect directly…

openssl s_client -connect smtp.gmail.com:465 -crlf -ign_eof

EHLO localhost

after that, authenticate to the server using the base64 encoded username/password

AUTH PLAIN AG15ZW1haWxAZ21haWwuY29tAG15cGFzc3dvcmQ=

to get this from the commandline:

echo -ne '\[email protected]\00password' | base64
AHVzZXJAZ21haWwuY29tAHBhc3N3b3Jk

then continue with “mail from:” like in your example

example session:

openssl s_client -connect smtp.gmail.com:465 -crlf -ign_eof
[... lots of openssl output ...]
220 mx.google.com ESMTP m46sm11546481eeh.9
EHLO localhost
250-mx.google.com at your service, [1.2.3.4]
250-SIZE 35882577
250-8BITMIME
250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN XOAUTH
250 ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
AUTH PLAIN AG5pY2UudHJ5QGdtYWlsLmNvbQBub2l0c25vdG15cGFzc3dvcmQ=
235 2.7.0 Accepted
MAIL FROM: <[email protected]>
250 2.1.0 OK m46sm11546481eeh.9
rcpt to: <[email protected]>
250 2.1.5 OK m46sm11546481eeh.9
DATA
354  Go ahead m46sm11546481eeh.9
Subject: it works

yay!
.
250 2.0.0 OK 1339757532 m46sm11546481eeh.9
quit
221 2.0.0 closing connection m46sm11546481eeh.9
read:errno=0

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