Use GMAIL to send emails from Linux terminal and shell script

How to Configure Linux to send emails from terminal and shell scripts using GMAIL as an external SMTP Server.

########### Use GMAIL SMTP server to send mails ##################

yum install -y mailx

Lets tell google we gonna send emails from other devices also.

https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps

Edit

vim /etc/mail.rc

#———– add the below lines and append as per your credentials.

set smtp=smtps://smtp.gmail.com:465
set smtp-auth=login
set [email protected]
set smtp-auth-password=YOURPASSWORD
set ssl-verify=ignore
set nss-config-dir=/etc/pki/nssdb/

Update the gmail account credentails over here and save

# Now we are all done , we will be using gmail to send email from our linux box.

echo “Relay Test” | mail -v -s “Relay test” [email protected]

anyways… you send it to multiple domains now..

Rememeber … From email id will be the same that you have configured within /et/mail.rc file