Postfix via Gmail SMTP
I’ve been taking a bit of time lately to do some of those low priority housekeeping tasks that can easily get overlooked.
By using quiet times to setup good processes life should be easier next time things get busy.
One of those tasks was to setup outgoing email on various systems - some of which are laptops and I’d still like automated mails to go out even if the device isn’t on the home network and can’t reach my ISP mailserver.
Back in the day you’d just send mail directly - but with spam protection everywhere this just doesn’t work and it’s far better to authenticate to some trusted mailserver.
I’m using gmail so I’ll use their servers.
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