Comments on: How To Use Gmail Account To Relay Email From a Shell Prompt

By: saravanan

saravanan — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:32:41 +0000

I have a problem with sending mail in CentOS 5.6.
I need a script to send mail from gmail to other accounts.
Please help me.

By: William Notowidagdo

William Notowidagdo — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:50:39 +0000

Works like a charm. Thanks for sharing.

By: Bill Cunningham

Bill Cunningham — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:54:01 +0000

Outstanding information! This worked exactly right the first time. I have been mucking around with mail on a Fedora PC for a long time. This did the trick.

By: Best Brain Teaser

Best Brain Teaser — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:54:38 +0000

/usr/sbin/sendmail: No such file or directory
“/home/lavesh/dead.letter” 9/227
. . . message not sent.

By: Daniel Kanafany

Daniel Kanafany — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:54:58 +0000

for those who has problems like this:

Null message body; hope that’s ok
mail: /usr/sbin/sendmail: No such file or directory
Can’t send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 1

try this:

the manual says that we must create a symlink:

ln -s /usr/local/ssmtp/sbin/ssmtp /usr/sbin/sendmail

but, depends on ur distro or version the correct location of this directories. In my case I use Fedora 12-64 and find that “/usr/local/ssmtp/sbin/ssmtp” is “/usr/sbin/ssmtp”, why:

[root@kanafas ssmtp]# whereis ssmtp
ssmtp: /usr/sbin/ssmtp /etc/ssmtp /usr/share/man/man8/ssmtp.8.gz

so I change the link to ” ln -s /usr/sbin/ssmtp /usr/sbin/sendmail ”

and now is working, any doubts or comments Ill be glad to help you.

By: msk

msk — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:31:21 +0000

I have tried above mentioned configured on my system. It worked nicely for a day but now it shows me following error.
“SSL_connect: Connection reset by peer. send-mail: Cannot open smtp.gmail.com:587″

Please get me to resolve this issue.

By: adriyas

adriyas — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 04:43:09 +0000

As always, Thanks Vivek.

For the sake of others wondering.
# vim /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
# service sendmail stop
# chkconfig sendmail off
# mkdir /root/.backup
# mv /usr/sbin/sendmail /root/.backup/
# whereis ssmtp
ssmtp: /usr/sbin/ssmtp /etc/ssmtp /usr/share/man/man8/ssmtp.8.gz
# ln -s /usr/sbin/ssmtp /usr/sbin/sendmail
# echo “This is a test email” | mail -s “Test” adriyas@gmail.com

Used it for my nagios email notification for repl

By: faerrleah

faerrleah — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 13:05:24 +0000

Will get your gmail account blocked for abusing service if you send too much email and too often.

By: Mats Karlsson

Mats Karlsson — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 09:31:45 +0000

There is some parts missing for CentOS 5:
ssmtp is available in the epel repository, that needs to be added before “yum install ssmtp”

The softlink is a bit off:
ln -s /usr/sbin/ssmtp /usr/sbin/sendmail

And I love this article, made my day ;-)

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 14 May 2010 11:38:43 +0000

So much easier than some of the other overkill guides – thanks!

By: Me

Me — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:04:21 +0000

Any way to add multiple email accounts to this list? For example user1 and user2?

By: Lukas

Lukas — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:45:46 +0000

also :

ls -latr /usr/sbin/ | grep mail
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mail 81304 2008-12-30 21:34 imapd*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 2010-03-23 16:36 mailq -> ssmtp*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2010-03-23 16:40 sendmail -> /usr/local/ssmtp/sbin/ssmtp

By: Lukas

Lukas — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:45:02 +0000

I Got this error? Any help ? Pleaseeeeee

$ echo “This is a test” | mail -s “Test” sakal@sakal.sk
-su: $: command not found
Null message body; hope that’s ok
mail: /usr/sbin/sendmail: No such file or directory
Can’t send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 1

Thanks

By: vuser1

vuser1 — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:02:38 +0000

Is anyone know how to config ssmtp to rewrite the RCPT TO header? Thanks.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:14:16 +0000

TO: Sergio Montini
[Ideally, I would like a script to email me my system logs (cron, login, etc)]

Here is a line of code that may help. It was pulled from Linux Pro Magazine August2009 issue, page 61. You should be able to add it to your backup script that cron launches. You’ll probably need to tweak it to suit your needs and not copy it verbatim, but this is the basic idea. Rather than sending the list of files in a backup directory, you could also send the contents of a log file.

ls -l /my-backups/’date +%y-%m-%d’ | mail -s “daily backup report” your@email.address

By: anonymous

anonymous — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:49:47 +0000

OMG you are the best if it weren’t for you i’d still be messing around with nc/sendmail (sendmail.mc,m4)/telnet
I have a single user comp (root+my user) and this is perfect

By: Asaduzzaman

Asaduzzaman — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:25:58 +0000

Dear Sir/ Madam,
Recently I have configured sandmail on Linux RH 9, and capable to send and receive mail from outlook express. But problem is domain name show diffenence in outlook express Inbox , that is : but I have configured domain name “bgdnyk.com” on linux send mail server.
Could you please asists, how can I get accurate domain name in outlook express.

By: Robert McKenzie

Robert McKenzie — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:11:55 +0000

Awesome .. exactly what I needed for the machines at home .. I refuse to use my ISP’s unauthenticated mail server, mostly because it’s a bit of a blackhole.. and I’ve been moving away from using mail on my hosted servers … most stuff has been ported to gmail servers.

Thanks for the quick and easy fix to using gmail as my smarthost!

By: Andres Rodriguez Guapacha

Andres Rodriguez Guapacha — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:53:57 +0000

Thanks for the Info! I have a Debian Squeeze system and when I tried to install ssmtp I couldn’t because exim4 was already installed. aptitude gave me the option to uninstall it, but I decided to try and use exim4 with gmail, so I ended in http://wiki.debian.org/GmailAndExim4 and followed those steps. It now works perfectly!

By: Sergio Montini

Sergio Montini — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:51:11 +0000

Great! I can now email directly from my NSLU2 (Slug).

Ideally, I would like a script to email me my system logs (cron, login, etc)

Any suggestions?

Many thanks!