SMTP

One of the most attaractive part of the internet is sending and receiving emails. How do we send and receive is still a mystery to many. Simple Mail Transfer Protocol(SMTP) is the standard technology used by people around the globe for sending emails. It was a protocol defined in RFC 821, used to send electronic mail between computers over Ethernet. This protocol is a server to server protocol. To access messages other protocols are used.

Use Gmail account to send mail from a Shell prompt

Written on October 17th, 2009 at 17:24 pm by chia

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Sometimes we want our desktops/servers to send mails automatically, but we dont want to setup a full mail server. sSMTP (not usual SMTP) can be perfect for this. It is extremely simple and resource conserving. In this article we will configure sSMTP and then use it to send outgoing email through gmail account.