We have our own in-house dedicated web server at our company running Ubuntu Server 13.04. Recently we upgraded most of our websites to the content management systems and added the functionality of user interaction and eCommerce. We wanted to have email notification whenever a contact form or new eCommerce order is submitted. I tried a number of ways to enable send mail functionality on the Ubuntu web server but I am going to share here the simplest and easy way of doing this; From Ubuntu Server Terminal windows; Install ssmtp: sudo apt-get install ssmtp Edit the ssmtp config file : nano /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf Enter the following contents in the file; root= username@gmail.com mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:465 rewriteDomain=gmail.com AuthUser= username AuthPass= password FromLineOverride=YES UseTLS=YES Replace the username and password with your Gmail or Google Apps details. Save the file and exit nano editor. You are done ! Now to test that everything is working fine. In
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