Here are Ubuntu instructions for connecting Postfix to Gmail, that worked for me, the last time I tried. I believe this is what you would get working so the mail command would work.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GmailPostfixFetchmail#head-1486e0007b80d2c2bbbf7c731139a73ea3bb0570 I also believe that Thunderbird, or other POP interface access to gmail will be unaffected by setting up Postfix. Good Luck. -- Pat On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Richard C. Steffens <rst...@comcast.net>wrote: > I wrote: > > > ... but still have to figure out what MTA to install. > > Google tells me that Postfix is the default MTA for Ubuntu 10.04. It > also mentions "Configuring Exim to serve as a lightweight, send-only > SMTP server" as another option. > > My question is whether this has any effect on my use of Thunderbird for > the rest of my e-mail activity. > > And the second question, is one of those two programs "preferred" over > the other? Both of them are available through Synaptic and so, in > theory, shouldn't be too hard to set up. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- p.j.timl...@ieee.org www.timlick.com 503-476-3119 10990 NE Paren Springs Rd. Dundee OR 97115 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug