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Today I have tried mail utility from my ubuntu system. Now in mail command, I could not find an utility to send mail from my gmail account. In fact, it sends from some adhikarisubir@ubutu (adhikarisubir is my login name). So wondering is it possible to send mails from my gmail account? Also, I noticed simple mails generated from sendmail goes to junk folders in gmail; In fact rediff does not allow to accept these mails. How can I avoid this?

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To send mail from your gmail account in Ubuntu system test this:

Open a terminal,

Press Ctrl+Alt+T

Run it:

sudo -i
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get install --reinstall msmtp-mta heirloom-mailx
apt-get clean
exit
nano ~/.mailrc

In the open file, paste these lines:

set sendmail="/usr/bin/msmtp"
set message-sendmail-extra-arguments="-a gmail"

Ctrl+O, save file. Ctrl+X, close nano.

Continue run:

nano ~/.msmtprc

In the open file, paste these lines:

#Gmail account
defaults
logfile ~/msmtp.log

account gmail
auth on
host smtp.gmail.com
from [email protected]
auth on
tls on
tls_trust_file /usr/share/ca-certificates/mozilla/Equifax_Secure_CA.crt
user [email protected]
password your_gmail_password
port 587

account default : gmail

Ctrl+O, save file. Ctrl+X, close nano.

chmod 600 .msmtprc

You can send email from the command line like this:

mail -s "subject" [email protected]

The cursor will go to a blank line.

Enter your email message.

When you're done, press Enter to go to a blank line

And then hit Control+D to end and sent your message.

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