Sending monit mails via Google Apps mailserver

[Jonas Kaufmann]

Hello,

I am trying to send notification mails using monit v5.1.1 on Debian
Squeeze. I am using Google Apps as a mailserver, so I wanted to use
the Google infrastructure for outgoing mails.

I have entered the following information in my /etc/monit/monitrc:

set mailserver smtp.gmail.com PORT 587 USERNAME "address@hidden"
PASSWORT "mypassword" using TLSV1 with timeout 30 seconds

When monit tries to send out mails, I get the following error:

Sendmail error: 530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first.
How can I tell monit to use STARTTLS? How can I send alert mails via
monit using the Google Apps mailserver?

Thank you for your help!

Best regards,

Jonas Kaufmann