Send email from the command line to gmail

Just some notes about what works and what is simple.

Works and is simple

http://www.debianadmin.com/how-to-sendemail-from-the-command-line-using-a-gma...

You can install sendEmail via Synaptic in Ubuntu but you will need to also install

• libio-socket-ssl-perl
• libnet-ssleay-perl
• perl

You can, of course, just tell Synaptic to do that.  You can also do it all from the command line:

$ sudo apt-get install sendemail libio-socket-ssl-perl libnet-ssleay-perl perl

 

Caveats and questions

sendEmail can use tls authentication but presumably this does not mean that the actual traffic is secure.  Of course email is normally transmitted in the clear anyway so this might not be a problem; however, if you are using this to backup confidential files to your gmail account you should try to use secure sockets to secure the connection against eavesdroppers.  And, especially in the light of recent reports of a Google employee snooping on email, you should encrypt the files themselves.

So the question: can sendEmail use SSL?

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