How do I add email sending capabilities?

[Gladfelder]

(3rd Feb, 2014 09:34 AM)mk01 Wrote:  @Gladfelder

postfix is full mail in the meaning designed to process millions of email / day. although it is possible to configure it just for outgoing mail, … makes no sense. either configure /etc/postfix/main.cf and postfix.cf

or install exim4-daemon-light or smail.

but for your purposes the best option is something like this http://www.logix.cz/michal/devel/smtp-cli/

Thanks for those ideas.

I believe I have actualy got it working. I followed these comrehensive instructions to the letter Get cron/alert mails to external address using Postfix+Gmail. Before doing that I did apt-get --purge remove postfix to ensure I was starting from scratch. Curiously, the testing at the end did not work but I am now getting 'Anacron job 'cron.weekly' on xbian' (and daily) emails so it appears to be working.