We've seen how to check Gmail using the terminal (shell) in Linux and Mac but how about sending emails from a shell?

This is actually pretty easy, here's what you have to do:

This tutorial shows you how to configure Thunderbird in order to send and receive mails of Gmail account .

Wouldn't it be useful if your computer could email you? I'd like to be notified by email when my server is in trouble, but I don't want to run my own mail server. sSMTP is perfect for this; it's a simple way to send email from your system to an SMTP mail server, like Gmail's.

Last day i came to know about an application named 'Gmail Backup' that helps you to download and back up all your mails from the Gmail inbox to your computer's hard disk.

Setting up e-mail servers can become a time consuming and complex task. Test mails can help verifying the functionality of the system – and here Swaks comes into play, the “swiss army knife for smtp”.

There is now a script called Gnome Gmail that comes as .deb for Ubuntu and .rpm for Fedora and Red Hat which adds support for Gmail to the Linux Gnome Desktop. Unlike the solution above, Gnome Gmail supports "To:", "Subject:", "body", "CC:", and "BCC: fields.

Gmail, Google's popular Web mail application, is already full of useful features all on its own. But Firefox users can further customize Gmail with a variety of add-ons. Some only change the appearance, while others add functionality that makes Gmail more like a personal planner than just a plain old email application. Let's take a look at three Firefox add-ons for Gmail.

When the need arises to send email from the command line, many folks first think of the mail(1) command.

Just one week shy of Christmas 2008, the Python world saw the release of version 3 of Python. Big deal, eh? Well ... it turns out it was and is, as Python 3 is the first major release of Python designed from the get-go to be incompatible with prior versions of the language.