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

If you're running a web application with user registration, you may need to have users or administrators receive email from the application. When you just need to send outgoing email and don't need to receive, it&'s easy to set up Postfix to do this for you. You can even set the "from" header so that replies will go to your own email account. This how-to was tested on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server.

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.

Mozilla's released a few weeks ago version 3 beta 3 of it Email Client, Thunderbird. This beta release still full of bugs and should not be used on a production box or as used as your principal email client. See the list of bugs in Thunderbird 3 beta 3 before going ahead to install.

Since I’ve started using Twitter, I’ve been on the hunt for a command line version, so I don’t need to start up a browser or send an SMS on my phone. As I found out, it’s pretty darn easy to Twitter from the command line.

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

Is it possible to send an email from a host that has no email client software installed? As long as you have netcat, of course it is!

I am personally a strong advocate of using the Command Line. However, I am coming from a more tech type of situation than some others do. For the 'average" user however, is the Command Line relevant to everyday use?

bti allows you to send twitter messages right from the command line. It works with both twitter.com and identi.ca. To use this program install the Ubuntu package with the same name (sudo apt-get install bti).