sendmail conbfigurations for sending mail to gmail

[peacepanda]

Hi All I am trying to send a simple mail from my fedora 16 command line to my gmail or yahoo account.I did downlaod sendmail and other things needed but still I am not able to send the mail.Can someone please point me how do I go about doing this

[stevea]

If you are just sending outbound emails this way, use ssmtp rather than sendmail.

It's *roughly* as follows
su -
<rootpasswd>
yum install ssmtp
alternatives --config mta # select the number for /usr/sbin/sendmail.ssmtp
vi /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
>> #add a line to the file like ...
>> mailhub=some.smtp.server
>> # you need to add gmail authentication info
>> # see example here http://wiki.debian.org/sSMTP
exit


The outbound mail is only sent when activated by a use of sendmail (from 'mail' or 'mailx' for example. There is no constantly running service.

---------- Post added at 09:33 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:29 AM ----------

I think you need this for gmail setup of ssmtp

AuthMethod=LOGIN
AuthUser=username@gmail.com
AuthPass=your-gmail-password
UseTLS=YES
UseSTARTTLS=YES
mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587

But if you are using google+ you *may* need to generate one of those app specific passwords. Not sure.

Sendmail is way overkill.

[peacepanda]

Thanks for your response.I did follow all your instructions.When I am running
ssmtp "testing setup " xyz@yyy.com I dont get my command promt back.Also I didnt get the meaning of your following line The outbound mail is only sent when activated by use of sendmail (from mail or mailx ....)