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Harsha
Asked: 2018-05-03 21:10:41 +0800 CST

Postfix to send email using gmail address

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I'm using postfix and mail from mailutils to send email using my gmail address through command line in Ubuntu. It works fine when I provide both from and to address like below:

mail -s "Some random subject" -a "From: [email protected]" [email protected]

But I need to configure to send email from default gmail address without specifying from address everytime. How can I do that?

Please help me!

command-line mail email gmail postfix

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You can specify the sender address mail uses by default in your ~/.mailrc file – create it if it doesn't exist yet – with the following line:

    set from="[email protected]"

    If this helps you, please also upvote this answer where I got it from and where you can get a configuration example.

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  2. A general way of adding options you want to be default to a command-line program is an alias, see: How do I create a permanent Bash alias?
    In your case this would be a line

    alias mail='mail -a "From: [email protected]"'

    added to either your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_aliases file.

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