I am trying to get my hands on a good command line email tool for Ubuntu so that I can send simple emails may be even attach files through the terminal or simple bash scripts. My ssmtp.conf file looks something like this right now:
#
# Config file for sSMTP sendmail
#
# The person who gets all mail for userids < 1000
# Make this empty to disable rewriting.
root=myusername@gmail.com
# The place where the mail goes. The actual machine name is required no
# MX records are consulted. Commonly mailhosts are named mail.domain.com
mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587
# Where will the mail seem to come from?
rewriteDomain=gmail.com
# The full hostname
hostname=myusername@gmail.com
AuthUser=myusername
AuthPass=mypassword
UseSTARTTLS=YES
# Are users allowed to set their own From: address?
# YES - Allow the user to specify their own From: address
# NO - Use the system generated From: address
FromLineOverride=YES
I also added alias in the revaliases file as follows:
root:myusername@gmail.com:smtp.gmail.com:587
localusername:myusername@gmail.com:smtp.gmail.com:587
I am behind a proxy server which works when i set an automatic proxy configuration URL and my system proxy settings are set according to the automatic proxy configuration URL.
However when I run sSMTP from terminal using:
sudo ssmtp someone@example.com
hello world
Then pressing ctrl+d, I get:
ssmtp: Cannot open smtp.gmail.com:587
The title is the question.
