Linux Tips and Tricks

Sending email via gmail in linux

September19

Sending email via gmail in linux

1) Make sure you have Heirloom mailx. How to test it ?
simply enter the below code in your command prompt

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$mailx -v
mail: invalid option -- v
Try `mail --help' or `mail --usage' for more information.

If you get the above error message, then you need to install the Heirloom mailx.

2) How to install it ? (i am using ubuntu)

$ sudo apt-get install heirloom-mailx
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libgsasl7 libmailutils2 libntlm0
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The following packages will be REMOVED:
mailutils
The following NEW packages will be installed:
heirloom-mailx
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3) Once the package is installed, check whether you have any file called .mailrc in your home directory.

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4) If you have any file, then just open and put the below contents. Otherwise create a new file called .mailrc

account gmail {
set smtp-use-starttls
set smtp=smtp://smtp.gmail.com:587
set smtp-auth=login
set smtp-auth-user=abcd@gmail.com
set smtp-auth-password=mypassword
set from="ABCD "
}

5) Just change the contents of the below lines.

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set smtp-auth-user=YOUR-GMAIL-ID
set smtp-auth-password=YOUR-GMAIL-PASSWORD
set from="NAME"

6) Its the time to test. Now trigger the below command from your command prompt.

$ echo "Test Email" | mailx -v -A gmail -s "test" yyyyyyyy@gmail.com
Resolving host smtp.gmail.com . . . done.
Connecting to 74.125.45.109 . . . connected.
250 2.0.0 OK 1316447647 s8sm2760907ani.3
 
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 >>> QUIT
 221 2.0.0 closing connection s8sm2760907ani.3