No, I don't believe (IIRC) it can send to root on the system it runs on -- ssmtp is just a set of programs to forward all outgoing mail to the smarthost. From the README:
This is sSMTP, a program that replaces sendmail on workstations that should send their mail via the departmental mailhub from which they pick up their mail (via pop, imap, rsmtp, pop_fetch, NFS... or the like). This program accepts mail and sends it to the mailhub, optionally replacing the domain in the From: line with a different one. WARNING: the above is all it does. It does not receive mail, expand aliases or manage a queue. That belongs on a mailhub with a system administrator. The man page (ssmtp.8) and the program logic manual (ssmtp_plm) discuss the limitations in more detail. It uses a minimum of external configuration information, and so can be installed by copying the (right!) binary and an optional four-line config file to a given machine. On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 01:22, Andrew Pollock wrote: > If that's anything like nullmailer, that means I can't send mail to root > locally > does it not? > > The environment I'm in has a smarthost, but it's generally for getting mail > out > of the network, direct inbound SMTP isn't there, so the smarthost can't send > it > elsewhere internally. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
