1 ## Using dma for sending mails via GMail SMTP
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3 This HOWTO helps you to set up dma for sending mails via gmail accounts. It's useful if you do not want to run -- and especially setup -- sendmail, postfix or other big MTA. So it's ideal for home use.
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5 Sending mails via gmail reduces the risk that your mail lands in some spam mailbox.
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9 The DragonFly Mail Agent (dma) is a small Mail Transport Agent (MTA), designed for home and office use. On a DragonFly system why should you use anything else?
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11 [Mutt](http://www.mutt.org) is a small but very powerful text-based mail client for Unix operating systems. I haven't found any better until now.
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14 dma: part of the base DragonFly system, so you already have it.
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16 [Mutt](http://www.mutt.org): You can install it from the pkgsrc tree (mail/mutt or mail/mutt-devel) or you can use prebuilt binaries.
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22 gmail_user@gmail.com|smtp.gmail.com:PaSsWorD
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27 SMARTHOST smtp.gmail.com
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37 set sendmail="/usr/libexec/dma"
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