First you need to install ssmtp on you Ubuntu box, which can be done by.
sudo apt-get install ssmtp
Now let us edit the ssmtp configuration file.
sudo gedit /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
The username and password are fake don't try them it is not my responsibility.
AuthUser=someone@gmail.com
AuthPass=s0m3p@$$w0rd
FromLineOverride=YES
mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587
UseSTARTTLS=YES
Your Sendmail client should not be running at this point.
You need to have a program called mail installed on your system as well.
sudo apt-get install mailutils
echo "THIS is a test" | mail -s "TEST" XYZ@gmail.com
You can check the status of the mail with the help of the exit codes. If it returns a Zero the program ran fine.
echo $?
sudo apt-get install ssmtp
Now let us edit the ssmtp configuration file.
sudo gedit /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
The username and password are fake don't try them it is not my responsibility.
AuthUser=someone@gmail.com
AuthPass=s0m3p@$$w0rd
FromLineOverride=YES
mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587
UseSTARTTLS=YES
Your Sendmail client should not be running at this point.
You need to have a program called mail installed on your system as well.
sudo apt-get install mailutils
echo "THIS is a test" | mail -s "TEST" XYZ@gmail.com
You can check the status of the mail with the help of the exit codes. If it returns a Zero the program ran fine.
echo $?
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