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http://www.absolutelytech.com/2010/07/17/howto-configure-msmtp-to-work-with-gmail-on-linux/

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http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/doc/msmtprc.txt

http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/documentation.html

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Msmtp is a small but powerful and highly customizable smtp client. You can access gmail smtp using msmtp, which is exactly what I’ll teach in this tutorial.

Step by step instructions:

Install msmtp and ca-certificates for use with SSL:
sudo apt-get install msmtp ca-certificates

We’ll create and edit the configuration file using Gedit:

sudo gedit /etc/msmtprc

Now copy and paste the following code in the text editor:

defaults
tls on
tls_starttls on
tls_trust_file /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
 
account default
host smtp.gmail.com
port 587
auth on
user username@gmail.com
password mypass
from username@gmail.com
logfile /var/log/msmtp.log

Needless to say, you have to replace username@gmail.com with your email and mypass with your password

It should be readable by anyone. However, we’ll still execute the following command to be sure.
sudo chmod 0644 /etc/msmtprc
Your msmtp configuration is ready. Lets send a test email to yourself to see if everything’s working properly:
echo -e "Subject: Test Mail\r\n\r\nThis is a test mail" |msmtp --debug --from=default -t username@gmail.com
Again replace username@gmail.com with your own email address and execute it. You should receive an email.

These are the exact commands to be used with Ubuntu.
You can replicate the steps for another distibution by using equivalent commands (For eg; yum install in place of apt-get install for centos, redhat, fedora.)
Cheers!