send email from command line

[Neil Cherry]

Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> mierda tuti wrote:
>> Hi,
> 
>> Well I don't explain to well.
> 
>> I have kubuntu 8,04 and I would like to send email for example to
>> mierdatuti at gmail.com., because I don't know too much about how configure it,
>> I 've saw that I have to configure a MTA (like postfix or sendmail) with
>> relay host. My relay host is gmail. Could you say me how to configure it?
> 
>> Many  thanks and sorry for my english!
> 
> No one has directly answered your question, though they've given you
> some pointers.  I found a tutorial that specifically uses gmail
> (http://www.linuxha.com/other/sendmail/gmail.html) as an SMTP provider.

:-)

>  That means you would be sending the email through your gmail account.
> You can send email /to/ any email user, including other gmail users.

To receive mail you cold use fetchmail to get mail for an individual.
I doubt Gmail would allow you to peer with it to receive email. At
the very least that would mean a commercial account as there is
quite a bit of effort to get that working.

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