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I'd like to set up some sort of mail server to send emails from from my gmail account to another email. How can I do this?

jrg
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First, install sSMTP, since in this instance postfix is overkill. Yes, this will remove postfix. Do we care? Not really.

sudo apt-get install ssmtp
  1. Configure sSMTP by editing /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
#Config file for sSMTP sendmail
#
# The person who gets all mail for userids < 1000
# Make this empty to disable rewriting.
root=yourusername@gmail.com
#I recommend setting this

mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587


Where will the mail seem to come from?


rewriteDomain=


#The full hostname
hostname=[some hostname here]
UseTLS=YES
UseSTARTTLS=YES
AuthMethod=LOGIN
AuthUser=yourusername@gmail.com
AuthPass=yourpassword


Are users allowed to set their own From: address?


YES - Allow the user to specify their own From: address


NO - Use the system generated From: address


This is optional if you're going to use revaliases - I didn't


FromLineOverride=YES

Now, we need to set permissions on /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf to help (it isn't foolproof) protect your plaintext password.

sudo chown root:nagios /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
sudo chmod 640 /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf

Restart nagios and you should be set.

sudo service nagios3 restart
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