Peer Heinlein wrote on 29/01/2008 19:15:
I was wondering what people think about adding something simple for
getting mail off of a host like SSMTP:
>>
I'm just not certain how widespread its use is. What do you folk
think?
I'm working fulltime as e-mail security consultant.
Programs like ssmtp are absolutely NOT relevant in professional networks.
Maybe it's nice for private use, I never, really never saw something like
this in productional use.
Uhm, I beg to disagree here. While noone in his right mind would try to
use it for users to get their mail off to the main mailserver (be it in
the company itself or provided by someone else), I saw uses for
nullmailer/ssmtp and the like in complex server installations.
And: It's really simple to make this even with postfix or other MTAs.
There's no need to use anything else.
That's true however. Given current distribution packages for MTAs, this
is really extremely easy to achieve. And even when doing the
configuration completely from scratch, the effort involved is minimal.
So to sum it up: I agree that you that something like ssmtp is not
needed. I disagree however that it is never used in production systems.
Best regards,
Sven Mueller
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