Using Gmail SMTP server to send mails

The last couple of weeks I had a horrid time. My favourite past-time: sending emails, was cut short due to some problem in my email client, coupled with our SMTP server, which kept giving me this error message:
Error while performing operation.
Welcome response error: Transaction failed
A number of Googling searches led me knowhere, so I turned to a solution of another sort from Google: The GMail SMTP server. Luckily, I could setup my Evolution Client on my Linux box within no time, to use and send mail via the GMail SMTP server. The steps are below:

• In your GMail account, goto settings>Accounts
• Add another email address there, in this case my email addy that complains..
• Verify the email address in GMail
• In Evolution (or whatever client you use), Edit your mail preferences
• Under server, add smtp.gmail.com
• Enable TLS encryption
• Under authentication, add <yourgmailusername> as your username
• Click Ok, enter the password when required, and cross your fingers

Thus, with some simple steps and some faith, I started sending emails again, thus becoming a nuisance to the world once again :p