Sending emails from Linux with ssmtp

Install SSMTP

apt-get install ssmtp

Configure the file

nano /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf

#

# Config file for sSMTP sendmail

#

# The person who gets all mail for userids < 1000

# Make this empty to disable rewriting.

root=thetnswe@gmail.com

# The place where the mail goes. The actual machine name is required no

# MX records are consulted. Commonly mailhosts are named mail.domain.com

mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587

# Where will the mail seem to come from?

#rewriteDomain=thetnswe@gmail.com

# The full hostname

hostname=thetnswe@gmail.com

UseSTARTTLS=YES

AuthUser=thetnswe@gmail.com

AuthPass=password

# Are users allowed to set their own From: address?

# YES - Allow the user to specify their own From: address

# NO - Use the system generated From: address

FromLineOverride=YES

Add the user to allow to send emails

nano /etc/ssmtp/revaliases

# sSMTP aliases

#

# Format:       local_account:outgoing_address:mailhub

#

# Example: root:your_login@your.domain:mailhub.your.domain[:port]

# where [:port] is an optional port number that defaults to 25.

root:thetnswe@gmail.com:smtp.gmail.com:587

localusername:thetnswe@gmail.com:smtp.gmail.com:587

Sending email

sudo ssmtp thetnswe@gmail.com

You will then type your message, hit enter and ‘ctrl+d‘

Now that you have a simple outgoing email server setup, you can do all sorts of neat things:

Creating email Form

nano /emails/email_test1.txt

sudo ssmtp thetnswe@gmail.com < /emails/email_test1.txt

Email send form might looks like this

Subject: Terminal Email Send

Email Content line 1

Email Content line 2