Gmail SMTP

  Outgoing Server: smtp.gmail.com
  Username: Full Google Apps email address
  Password: Google Apps password
  Port: 465
  Security: SSL

Test SMTP

Test SMTP With telnet

# telnet localhost smtp

Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
Escape character is '^]'.
220 fbreveal.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.8/8.13.8; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 05:05:59 -0400
HELO yahoo.com
250 tecadmin.net Hello tecadmin.net [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you
mail from: sender@tecadmin.net
250 2.1.0 sender@tecadmin.net... Sender ok
rcpt to: myemail@ymail.com
250 2.1.5 myemail@ymail.com... Recipient ok
data
354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
Hey
This is test email only

Thanks
.
250 2.0.0 r9M95xgc014513 Message accepted for delivery
quit
221 2.0.0 fbreveal.com closing connection
Connection closed by foreign host.

Test SMTP With sendmail

cat /tmp/email.txt

Subject: Terminal Email Send

Email Content line 1
Email Content line 2

sendmail user@example.com  < /tmp/email.txt

Test SMTP With Mail

Without attachment: mail -s “Test Subject” user@example.com < /dev/null

With attachment: mail -a /opt/backup.sql -s “Backup File” user@example.com < /dev/null

Test SMTP With Mutty

Without attachment: mutt -s “Test Email” user@example.com < /dev/null

With attachment: # mutt -s “Test Email” -a /opt/backup.sql user@example.com < /dev/null

Test SMTP With ssmtp

# ssmtp admin@example.com Subject: Test SSMTP Email Email send test using SSMTP via SMTP server.

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