Hi all,
Some time ago I got reached by a client with this error to send SMTP emails using GMail service with a wallet.
This is a generic error, in general the string identified the error returned from email service layer.
# Generic:
ORA-29278: SMTP transient error: string
# Error I was facing:
ORA-29278: SMTP transient error: 421 Service not available
Basically it was related to some intermittence on GMail’s service and got back to normal after a while. This is also well documented in this post by Hâvard Kristiansen.
However, I couldn’t use scripts there because of my wallet. Then I found the very useful commands below, that is what I want to share with you:
# Checking for SSL Certificate:
[oracle@grepora-srvr]$ openssl s_client -crlf -quiet -connect smtp.gmail.com:587 -starttls smtp depth=3 C = US, O = Equifax, OU = Equifax Secure Certificate Authority verify return:1 depth=2 C = US, O = GeoTrust Inc., CN = GeoTrust Global CA verify return:1 depth=1 C = US, O = Google Inc, CN = Google Internet Authority G2 verify return:1 depth=0 C = US, ST = California, L = Mountain View, O = Google Inc, CN = smtp.gmail.com verify return:1 250 SMTPUTF8 ^C
(return:1 means "passed".) # Testing SMTP on Database (code):