Jeff Abbott wrote: > Chris T wrote: > > >> Yup. That seemed to work fine, although I'm struggling to get the >> authentication to work with the postfix relay. Do you happen to know if >> you need to compile from source with auth built in if you want >> authentication to work. The docs are a little... basic >> > > I honestly do not know, since I've never tried to do authN SMTP with it. > It also looks like it only supports LOGIN and CRAM-MD5 according to > the man page, so I can't really test it as our SMTP server doesn't do > either of those. Try this, though: > > /usr/sbin/ssmtp -auUSERNAME -apPASSWORD root > > Enter some data and hit enter twice to end. For me, this spat out the > error: > > ssmtp: Server didn't accept AUTH LOGIN (504 5.3.3 AUTH mechanism > LOGIN not available) > > Maybe it'll give you something equally useful. Hopefully, if it's > compiled without authN support, it'll complain about that. You may also > want to do: > > export HISTCONTROL=ignorespace > > first. If you then put a space before /usr/sbin/ssmtp it won't save > that command in your shell history, so your password won't be written in > your history file for anyone with the right perms to see. Mmmmmm. bash. > > >> Thanks for your help >> > > Sure thing. Sorry I can't be of more assistance, but I suspect that > ssmtp is supposed to solve a very simple problem and thus doesn't offer > much in the way of advanced SMTP capabilities. If you can't get it to > do this, I'd suggest looking into setting up Postfix as a satellite host > and not listening on port 25 for the world to hit. > > Thanks, > Jeff > > > > > Sounds good. Thanks for the suggestions
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