Setting up a Raspberry Pi (Raspian Jessie) to send Email

1 · Danny Tuppeny · April 8, 2016, midnight
There are a bunch of things on Linux that send emails by default (for example, the output of Cron jobs). Being a Linux noob I wanted to ensure I received these emails (what if something goes bad because of my noobness?) and also wanted to ensure my Raspberry Pi can send emails to me from scripts if required in the future. There are a lot of tutorials online about how to do this most of which require hard-coding your email account password on your Pi. I’m not ready for this sort of commitment (ev...