From 8a77438d64d12f78e9368e1ad03745f113b6642e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mario Alegre <mario@git.alemor.org>
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2020 14:58:04 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] added instructions for testing

---
 linux/mail/msmtp.md | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/linux/mail/msmtp.md b/linux/mail/msmtp.md
index 88fe96b..6e8ee58 100644
--- a/linux/mail/msmtp.md
+++ b/linux/mail/msmtp.md
@@ -32,3 +32,13 @@ since you will be putting a plaintext password in this config file, make sure it
 ```
 chmod og-r /etc/msmtprc
 ```
+
+## test
+you can test if you can connect to the server by running:
+```
+msmtp -Sd
+```
+or try sending yourself an email by running:
+```
+echo "this is a test" | mail -s "testing" youremail@yourdomain
+```