Use GMAIL to send emails from Linux terminal and shell script

Опубликовано: 11 Апрель 2026
на канале: Kunal Saha
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How to Configure Linux to send emails from terminal and shell scripts using GMAIL as an external SMTP Server.

########### Use GMAIL SMTP server to send mails ##################


yum install -y mailx


Lets tell google we gonna send emails from other devices also.

https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecu...


Edit

vim /etc/mail.rc

#----------- add the below lines and append as per your credentials.


set smtp=smtps://smtp.gmail.com:465
set smtp-auth=login
set [email protected]
set smtp-auth-password=YOURPASSWORD
set ssl-verify=ignore
set nss-config-dir=/etc/pki/nssdb/

Update the gmail account credentails over here and save

Now we are all done , we will be using gmail to send email from our linux box.

echo "Relay Test" | mail -v -s "Relay test" [email protected]

anyways... you send it to multiple domains now..

Rememeber ... From email id will be the same that you have configured within /et/mail.rc file