how do i mail my self in a bash script

[lancebermudez]

I have a script that at the end i want to email me that it has run because crontab dos not seem to like libnotify. I was given this command

mail - "update done on ubuntu" lancebermudez@gmail.com

I have no email program but thunderbird installed on my computer I have no idea what I'm doing please help me. below is the script

#!/bin/bash
sh /home/lance/bin/aptgetupdate;
sh /home/lance/bin/aptgetdistupgrade;
sh /home/lance/bin/updatavast;
sh /home/lance/bin/setat2;
notify-send -i /home/lance/bin/clock.png 'Lance update has gone off' -t 0;
mail - "update done on ubuntu" lancebermudez@gmail.com

in the terminal i see

Exiting... (End of file)
warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh
job 124 at Wed Jun 9 15:10:00 2010
warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh
job 125 at Wed Jun 9 02:00:00 2010
/home/lance/bin/acerupdate: 7: mail: not found
lance@bermudezl:~/Videos$

[dmk06]

Sending Email From Your System with sSMTP

Wouldn’t it be useful if your computer could email you? I’d like to be notified by email when my server is in trouble, but I don’t want to run my own mail server. sSMTP is perfect for this; it’s a simple way to send email from your system to an SMTP mail server, like Gmail’s.

Here’s how I set up sSMTP on Ubuntu to send mail through my Gmail account.[.....]

address: tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/10/21/sending-email-from-your-system-with-ssmtp/