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Sending Email From Your System with sSMTP
Wouldn’t it be useful if your computer could email you? I’d like to be notified by email when my server is in trouble, but I don’t want to run my own mail server. sSMTP is perfect for this; it’s a simple way to send email from your system to an SMTP mail server, like Gmail’s.
Here’s how I set up sSMTP on Ubuntu to send mail through my Gmail account.
Install sSMTP from the package ssmtp (click the link to install), or by running the command below in your terminal:
sSMTP can be configured from one text file. Open /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf in a text editor:
The configuration file is very short and well commented by default. Here’s the options I use for sending mail through Gmail:
If you’re using Gmail like I am, change the root, authuser, and authpass options to the email address, username, and password of your Google account. If you’re using another mail service you’ll need to change mailhub to the relevant SMTP server.
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Here’s how I set up sSMTP on Ubuntu to send mail through my Gmail account.
Install sSMTP from the package ssmtp (click the link to install), or by running the command below in your terminal:
sudo apt-get install ssmtpsSMTP can be configured from one text file. Open /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf in a text editor:
sudo gedit /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.confThe configuration file is very short and well commented by default. Here’s the options I use for sending mail through Gmail:
root=myemailaddress@gmail.com<br />mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587<br />AuthUser=mygmailusername<br />AuthPass=mypassword<br />UseSTARTTLS=YESIf you’re using Gmail like I am, change the root, authuser, and authpass options to the email address, username, and password of your Google account. If you’re using another mail service you’ll need to change mailhub to the relevant SMTP server.
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