Installing and Config heirloom-mailx (Gmail) on centos/ubuntu

Creating certificate Directory for SSL/TLS auth for Gmail

# Create a certificate directory

~]$ mkdir .certs

# Create a new database in the certs dir

~]$ certutil -N -d .certs 

# Fetch the certificate from Gmail, saving in the text file GMAILCERT

~]$ echo -n | openssl s_client -connect smtp.gmail.com:465 | sed -ne '/-BEGIN CERTIFICATE-/,/-END CERTIFICATE-/p' > GMAILCERT

# Import the new cert file into the new database in the new dir

~]$ certutil -A -n "Google Internet Authority" -t "C,," -d .certs -i GMAILCERT 

# Double Check

~]$ certutil -L -d .certs

Certificate Nickname                                         Trust Attributes

                                                             SSL,S/MIME,JAR/XPI

Google Internet Authority                                    C,,  

Mail .mailrc file

 account gmail {

 set smtp-use-starttls

 set ssl-verify=ignore

 set nss-config-dir=~/.certs

 set smtp=smtp://smtp.gmail.com:587

 set smtp-auth=login

 set smtp-auth-user=data.insights@me.com

 set smtp-auth-password=passwd

 set from="data.insights@me.com (My Insights)"

 }

Testing mail Config

 echo "Test Email" | mailx  -v -A gmail -s "test" zubair.ahmed@me.com