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sSMTP - Simple SMTP

sSMTP is a simple MTA to deliver mail from a computer to a mail hub (SMTP server). sSMTP is simple and lightweight, there are no daemons or anything hogging up CPU; Just sSMTP. Unlike Exim4, sSMTP does not receive mail, expand aliases, or manage a queue.

Package is currently unmaintained

This package has been orphaned since 2019-03-19. msmtp can be used as an alternative.

Interested in becoming sSMTP maintainer? Find out how in section 5.9.5 of Debian's Developer Manual.

Bug Report #925056

List of other orphaned packages

Setting up sSMTP

sSMTP's main configuration file is located at /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf

Here is a sample configuration file taken from my /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf:

#
# Config file for sSMTP sendmail
#
# The person who gets all mail for userids < 1000
# Make this empty to disable rewriting.
root=yourmail@mail.com

# The place where the mail goes. The actual machine name is required no
# MX records are consulted. Commonly mailhosts are named mail.domain.com
mailhub=smtp.yourmail.com

# Where will the mail seem to come from?
rewriteDomain=

# The full hostname
hostname=yourserver.example.com

# Are users allowed to set their own From: address?
# YES - Allow the user to specify their own From: address
# NO - Use the system generated From: address
FromLineOverride=YES

# Username and password for Google's Gmail servers
# From addresses are settled by Mutt's rc file, so
# with this setup one can still achieve multi-user SMTP
AuthUser=username@gmail.com
AuthPass=password

#### VERY IMPORTANT !!! If other people have access to this computer
# Your GMAIL Password is left unencrypted in this file
# so make sure you have a strong root password, and make sure
# you change the permissions of this file to be 640:
# chown root:mail /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
# chmod 640 /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
#
# add your user to the group mail
# usermod -a -G mail <yourUserName>
# quit all your sessions
# login again
# send a test mail:
# user@yourmachine ~ $ ssmtp "testing ssmtp setup" yourMail@gmail.com

Using sSMTP with Gmail

Using sSMTP with Gmail is simple, you just have to change a few options around and add in TLS encryption and change Google's server to port 587

AuthMethod=LOGIN
UseTLS=YES
UseSTARTTLS=YES
mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587

And that's all. Now just tell your MUA to run /usr/sbin/ssmtp for outgoing mails, and you should be set. This also works with Google for Domains.


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