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-====== Send Email via Gmail SMTP Cmd Line ====== 
  
-**General Information** 
- 
-Send an e-mail message from a bash script or command line program. 
- 
-**Checklist** 
-  * Distros: Debian/Ubuntu based 
- 
----- 
- 
-===== Install msmtp ===== 
-This package will allow you to configure what gmail account to send from and will connect securely via TLS to the gmail SMTP servers. 
- 
-<code bash> 
-sudo apt-get install msmtp-mta 
-</code> 
- 
----- 
- 
-===== Install Mailx ===== 
-Install a simple mail transfer agent to actually prepare the e-mail message. 
- 
-<code bash> 
-sudo apt-get install heirloom-mailx 
-</code> 
- 
----- 
- 
-===== Configure Gmail Account on MSMTP ===== 
- 
-1) Create a file in your home directory called ".msmtprc" 
-<code bash> 
-vim ~/.msmtprc 
-</code> 
- 
-2) Paste the following into the config file, change the "your_address" x2 and "your_gmail_password" to refect your information: 
- 
-<code bash> 
-#Gmail account 
-defaults 
-logfile ~/msmtp.log 
- 
-account gmail 
-auth on 
-host smtp.gmail.com 
-from your_address@gmail.com 
-auth on 
-tls on 
-tls_trust_file /usr/share/ca-certificates/mozilla/Equifax_Secure_CA.crt 
-user your_address@gmail.com 
-password your_gmail_password 
-port 587 
- 
-account default : gmail 
-</code> 
- 
-**Note:** If you use two factor authentication for gmail, you will need to create an application specific password for this config file. To do that: 
-  * Login to Gmail 
-  * Click your Account Icon (top right), then Account 
-  * Click on the Security tab on the top 
-  * In the "Sign-in" box, accross from App Passwords, click on Settings. 
-  * Select a custom name and type something to describe msmtp so you won't forget what it is for. 
-  * Click Generate 
-  * Copy and paste the password from the pop up box into the config file above as "your_gmail_password" 
- 
-3) Secure the config file 
-Since it contains credentials, ensure only you can read it: 
-<code bash> 
-chmod 600 .msmtprc 
-</code> 
- 
----- 
- 
-===== Configure Mailx ===== 
-Setup mailx to use msmtp to send e-mail. 
- 
-Create a .mailrc in your home folder: 
-<code bash> 
-vim ~/.mailrc 
-</code> 
- 
-Paste the following in: 
-<code bash> 
-set sendmail="/usr/bin/msmtp" 
-set message-sendmail-extra-arguments="-a gmail" 
-</code> 
- 
----- 
- 
-===== Send mail from the command line ===== 
- 
-==== Interactively ==== 
- 
-<code bash> 
-mail -s "Subject Here" address@destination.com 
-</code> 
- 
-You will now be able to type in your message. When you want to send it, type ENTER to go to a blank line and then Ctrl+D to end/send. 
- 
-==== Auto Messages ==== 
-To send an e-mail from a script, you will need to pre-write your message. 
- 
-Populate a text file, such as "message.txt" with the e-mail to be sent. 
-Then, send it like this: 
-<code bash> 
-mail -s "My Awesome Message Subject" importantperson@cooldomain.com < message.txt 
-</code> 
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