Am 16.03.16 18:04 schrieb(en) Jack:
As a user, it seems to me that balsa doesn't include or specify a specific smtp 
transport.  I've been using ssmtp, and the Gentoo link to source is 
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/ssmtp/ .

Afaict, ssmtp is a mta, not a (e)smtp library...

Pawel has worked on fixing at least one security issue since Brian went out of 
sight.

Interesting.  Has this patch been pushed into the official sources?  The only 
CVE's I could find are for older libesmtp versions (CVE-2010-1192 and 
CVE-2010-1194 for 1.0.4), while the latest seems to be 1.0.6.  Do you know more 
details about the issue and its fix?

- esmtp (http://esmtp.sourceforge.net/) which does indicate no longer 
maintained, and
- libesmtp (http://www.stafford.uklinux.net/libesmtp/) I can't get any 
connection to the site

Debian has libesmtp 1.0.6 in jessie, stretch and sid, and Ubuntu will have it 
in 16.04LTS aka xenial.  The Debian page [1] also links to the (now apparently 
dead) web site, and has a Debian QA contact, so there /might/ be a chance that 
security issues get fixed, even if the original author is not actively 
supporting it any more.

I searched a little bit for alternatives.  The only one which looks promising 
is libcurl which even has an example [2].  However, I don't know if more 
advanced features like DSN are supported by it.

Cheers,
Albrecht.


[1] <https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libesmtp-dev>
[2] <https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/smtp-tls.html>

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