For SMTP without authentification, AMC can do it for you (choose SMTP for Edit/Preferences/Email/Mail delivery method).

If you need authentification for your SMTP server, you have to install a sendmail-compatible tool. Sendmail, postfix or exim are overkill. Maybe you can choose something like msmtp from msmtp Ubuntu package.

what is the correct method if used gmail ?

i mean what type in "Edit/Preferences/Email/Mail".
regards,

• install msmtp package
• configure msmtp (see for exemple http://code.google.com/p/google-gadgets-for-linux/wiki/MSMPTQuickStart)
• set Edit/Preferences/Email/Mail delivery method value to sendmail and sendmail path to /usr/bin/msmtp

I have set up msmtp following the link above and checked that it works by sending an email from command line.
However, when I try to send emails through AMC I get the error message that the sendmail is not available in that path.

Anyhow, it seems that the problem with msmtp is limited to Ubuntu 13.04. I suspect that 13.04 disables sendmail by default.

I have tried setting up msmtp on another partition running Bodhi Linux (Ubuntu 12.04 based) and all wen well. Plus it was very easy to set up! So, thanks for the links and the information, I am really glad to have this working as it is a very neat feature.

One last thing, when I was setting up msmtp on Bodhi Linux I added one extra step and edited /etc/mail.rc to include:

set sendmail=/usr/bin/msmtp

I have no idea if that is actually relevant in this case, I was just following instructions from Arch Wiki.

i don't find the configuration file where is it ?

Look at step 2 * *. There are two configuration files, user and system. I don't know if this will work for everyone, but these steps worked for me on Bodhi Linux.

1.
sudo apt-get install sendmail msmtp

2. Follow simple configuration steps found here -> msmtp set-up: https://code.google.com/p/google-gadgets-for-linux/wiki/MSMPTQuickStart

• strike one - had trouble with setting permissions (chmod 600) to user configuration file in /home/username/.msmtprc
• eventually copied the file to /etc/msmtprc (system configuration file) and gave more liberal permissions by using
  sudo chmod 654 msmtprc
  . I deleted the /home/username/.msmtprc.

3. Added an extra step following advice found on Arch Wiki. I am not sure if this is really necessary for all users, you can
still send emails from command line without this step.

set sendmail=/usr/bin/msmtp

Well, that's really all there is to it. Msmtp is simple to set up and it integrates nicely with my pre-existing gmail account.
 Here is the content of /etc/msmtprc (system configuration file):

1. Use an external SMTP server with insecure authentication.
2. (manually choose an insecure authentication method.)
3. Note that the password contains blanks.

defaults

1. A sample configuration using Gmail ######################################################################

1. account name is "gmail".
2. You can select this account by using "-a gmail" in your command line.
   account gmail
   host smtp.gmail.com
   tls on
   tls_certcheck off
   port 587
   auth login
   from myaccount@gmail.com
   user myaccount@gmail.com
   password somesecret

1. If you don't use any "-a" parameter in your command line,
2. the default account "someplace" will be used.
   account default: gmail

Un grand merci cela fonctionne

Big thanks it's work

Cool! You're welcome.

Niko Z>

It seems Gmail has added an extra step in authentication.

Ensure that the setting "Allow less secure apps:ON" is enabled in

[[https://myaccount.google.com/security#signin]]

page.

was a little frustrating trying to figure out why msmtp, would not work.
Turned out to be gmail