GMAIL SSMTP MAIL SERVER INSTALLATION SHELL SCRIPT FOR UBUNTU

A Simple Gmail SSMTP(Secure Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) fully automated installation shell script for all Ubuntu versions.SSMTP can be used only for sending mails alone.It doesn't has any features life receiving mails,drafts etc.

Updating the system

   apt update -y

Installing mailutils

   apt-get install mailutils -y

Installing smtp mail server

   apt-get install ssmtp -y

Gets the mail id for mailing purposes, Which is the sender mail address and from this mail id mails will be sent ,Stores in ssmtp.conf file

 echo -n  "provide your email id:" 
 read  mail
 echo "AuthUser=$mail" >> /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf 

Gets the respective mail password for mailing purposes.

 echo -n "Provide your email password:"
 read  password;
 echo "AuthPass=$password" >> /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf

Some configurations will be updated in-order to do a secure mail transfer.587 ssmtp port.

echo "mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587" >> /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
echo "UseSTARTTLS=YES" >> /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
echo "FromLineOverride=YES" >> /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf

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