SSMTP is a send-only sendmail emulator for machines which normally pick their mail up from a centralized mailhub (via pop, imap, nfs mounts or other means). It provides the functionality required for humans and programs to send mail via the standard or /usr/bin/mail user agents.
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How to change default FROM address for mail command using sSMTP?
I have installed:
sudo apt-get install ssmtp
sudo apt-get install mailutils
When I use command:
echo "something" | mail -s "testing email" email@example.com
The generated email have From field set to something like this:
From: "Username"…
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How to get ssmtp to map local user to email address for the To: field
I have a simple ssmtp setup.
The command echo test | mail -s "testing" username always results in me trying to send an email to username@hostname which always fails.
I am thus trying to map the local username to a specific email address.
How do I do…
Cookie
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SSMTP with gmail "cannot open 587:587"
I'm trying to configure my HTPC to send me an email once in a while, particularly after certain cron jobs but I can't get it to work. I've also got a server running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS where I eventually got SSMTP to work so I've tried to copy those…
Zarkov
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ssmtp Cannot open mail.server.com:25
I am trying to configure ssmtp on our Ubuntu 12.04 server. However I had no luck so far. My ssmtp.conf looks like…
n1000
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ssmtp: Authorization failed for corporate mailserver
Our corporate has its own mailserver and I want to send mail to it from command line. I've install smtp and configure it.
Configuration in…
d a i s y
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How do I set up ssmtp for use with Fastmail?
There are plenty of guides on the web about setting up ssmtp for Gmail, but it's a bit different for different providers.
How should it be done for fastmail.com?
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ssmtp: Cannot open smtp.gmail.com:587
I try to send a email using ssmtp but it not working
My ssmtp config…
Vinoth Kumar
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sSMTP errors : `Unable to set TLS_CA_FILE="/full/path/to/file.pem"' then 'Bad Credentials' from gmail
Even though I can succeed in sending mail using swaks with ssmpt protocol, I get an error when I try to use the ssmpt program.
Here is the mail log from the failing ssmtp exchange:
Sep 8 21:25:24 skunk-desktop sSMTP[13400]: Set…
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ssmtp - can I whitelist recipients so that I do not accidentally email customers from my dev system?
I use ssmtp to test emails sent from my development web server. Sometimes I want to test things that went wrong for a customer and need to use their email address to bring up records etc. on a test system. What I really don't want is to…
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ssmtp trying to use port 25 when configured for 587
I'm trying to use ssmtp to send a simple email from a server. There are loads of examples out there for configuring a gmail account and that's what I'm using. My /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf tile contains the line:
mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587
But when I…
jwhitmore
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Having some issues to send mails using ssmtp
Actually, I'm using a RaspberryPI 3b.
This is my…
Oriol Filter
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SSMTP on Ubuntu 18.10 server stopped sending email through GMail
I use SSMTP on many of our servers. As of June 6th 2019 I can no longer get SSMTP on any of my ubuntu servers to send email. I have some raspberry pies using the same scripts and they send just fine. On site and offsite using different Google domain…
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How to set the from header for outgoing system email messages that are sent via msmtp on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
I have setup msmtp on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS to deliver system email messages (cron, etc) to my inbox using an external smtp server.
I use the packages msmtp-mta, ca-certificates, heirloom-mailx
The configuration works fine. However emails that the system…
Jabb
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Why does ssmtp work with sudo but not without?
I am a Ubuntu novice. I've set up ssmtp.
If I run
echo "mail test" | sudo ssmtp -vvv xxxxxxxx@domainname.com
it works. Without sudo it doesn't. It gives Authorization failed 535 Incorrect Authentication
So what difference is sudo making ?
If I…
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