mailserver for google apps email

My domain is using google apps email for its email hosting. I was wondering if there was some way to connect to google email from my unix server so that I can send mail through that google apps account.

For example, monit (the server monitoring software package) will send mail to the local system using "set mailserver localhost" Is there a way for me to replace localhost with some address from google apps?

This should be pretty easy with ssmtp, here is a wiki article talking about how to set up ssmtp on gentoo. While the location of the files might be different the configuration should be the same.

Nowadays gmail accounts and Google Apps all support outgoing SMTP. I'm not sure if it has to be enabled or not, I think it's enabled by default. The settings (for both) are: Server: smtp.gmail.com Port: 587 Use SSL Username: google-apps-or-gmail@address Passowrd: google-apps-or-gmail-password

Monit can be configured to use these settings as per this question:

set mailserver smtp.gmail.com PORT 587 USERNAME "[email protected]" PASSWORD "mypassword" using TLSV1 with timeout 30 seconds