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A quick guide to sending SMTP email with Google. This is a handy little trick. You can even use a non gmail.com account.

The GMail SMTP server. Luckily, I could setup my Evolution Client on my Linux box within no time, to use and send mail via the GMail SMTP server.

Using TLS means your emails to google are encrypted too, after they go from google as its email they are in clear text, but that is the nature of email. It does mean that anyone sniffing your traffic on an unencrypted or WEP encrypted access point will see nothing but gibberish.

Using Gmail SMTP to send email - a quick guide .