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Send Email via Gmail SMTP Server

Set up Gmail App Password

https://myaccount.google.com/apppasswords

Note: You will need 2FA activated for this to work

Configure Bash SMTP

sudo apt-get install mutt

vim ~/.muttrc

set from = "<gmail-id>@gmail.com"
set realname = "<Your Name>"
set smtp_url = "smtp://<gmail-id>@smtp.gmail.com:587/"
set smtp_pass = "<smtp password generated in the google link above>"

echo "This is an email body." | mutt -s "This is an email subject" recipient@example.com

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