In the debian world a machine used to ship with exim4, Ubuntu Server prefers postfix afaik but sendmail is also available through apt.
Basically there's a ton of SMTP servers out there and you'll have to do that very hard thing: choose ;) A lot has been written comparing them and all of them are I believe well documented. Good luck, Eliyahu - אליהו 2017-01-05 14:44 GMT+02:00 David Suna <da...@davidsconsultants.com>: > I have an Ubuntu machine that I am using to develop PHP based web > application. I now need to configure it so that PHP can send out mail. The > default seems to be to install sendmail. However, I have seen comments that > sendmail is overkill and some references to ssmtp. > > What would be the recommended way to configure this? Sendmail, ssmtp or > something else? > > Thanks, > > -- > David Suna > da...@davidsconsultants.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il