Sending mail through a remote SMTP server in Linux

Submitted by Derick Ng on 5 December 2010 - 4:00pm

Sending mail through the Linux command line can sometimes be a tricky issue. If you don't know how to set up your own mail server, but have a readily accessible SMTP residing elsewhere, I'll show you how to use a readily-available Debian/Ubuntu package to send your mail through this SMTP server quickly and easily.