How to send mail from the command line

How can I send mails from the command line?

The first thing you'll need is a gmail account, that is dedicated to this purpose. So go ahead and create one. Then what you need to do is to also allow "less secure apps" to send e-mails. You can do that at https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps.

After having set up your Gmail Account for sending mails, you can log in to your server and run through the following steps.

```
sudo apt-get install ssmtp mailutils
```
Open the following file in your favorite text editor (vim, nano, ...):
```
nano /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
```

Append the following lines:

root=username@gmail.com
mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:465
rewriteDomain=gmail.com
AuthUser=username@gmail.com
AuthPass=password
FromLineOverride=YES
UseTLS=YES

Finally, send mails like this:

echo "Hi there!" | mail -s "My Subject" recipient@example.com

Dear Devs: You can help Ukraine🇺🇦. I opted for (a) this message and (b) a geo targeted message to Russians coming to this page. If you have a blog, you could do something similar, or you can link to a donations page. If you don't have one, you could think about launching a page with uncensored news and spread it on Russian forums or even Google Review. Or hack some russian servers. Get creative. #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦

Dear russians🇷🇺. I am a peace loving person from Switzerland🇨🇭. It is without a doubt in my mind, that your president, Vladimir Putin, has started a war that causes death and suffering for Ukrainians🇺🇦 and Russians🇷🇺. Your media is full of lies. Lies about the casualties, about the intentions, about the "Nazi Regime" in Ukraine. Please help to mobilize your people against your leader. I know it's dangerous for you, but it must be done!

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How can I send mails from the command line?

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