## Using dma for sending mails via GMail SMTP 

### About 

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.



Sending mails via gmail reduces the risk that your mail lands in some spam mailbox.



### Why these? 



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?



[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.



### Install 

dma: part of the base DragonFly system, so you already have it.



[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.



### Setup 

#### dma 

/etc/dma/auth.conf

    

    gmail_user@gmail.com|smtp.gmail.com:PaSsWorD





/etc/dma/dma.conf

    

    SMARTHOST smtp.gmail.com

    PORT 587

    AUTHPATH /etc/dma/auth.conf

    SECURETRANSFER

    STARTTLS

    INSECURE





#### mutt 

~/.muttrc

    

    set sendmail="/usr/libexec/dma"