On Nov 29, 2007 2:27 AM, Dave Burns <tburns@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Nov 28, 2007 1:01 PM, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Why exactly could you not use the mail command or mutt , both which are > > command line oriented, to send yourself mail. > > I think he just wanted to use gmail's smtp server is all. Using mutt > or mail is okay, he just doesn't know how to configure them to use > gmail for smtp. Or maybe I don't get it either. > Dave > Yea basically I wanted to use gmail's smtp, but couldnt find out quite how to make it work. Turns out making it work with my uni account was much easier. I could have used mutt but I tried email first, and it was very simple and just what I need. Thanks for your help! Alastair