On Sat, May 02, 1998, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: > On Sat, May 02, 1998 at 11:36:28AM -0700, John Labovitz wrote: > > have you looked at ssmtp? i just took a quick look at the source, and > > it seems that it's *extremely* simple -- sounds like a good one for a > > send-only MTA. > > > > config options excerpted from the INSTALL file: > > > > root: The person who gets root's mail (also daemons', etc). > > This userid (on the mailhub) get all mail sent to > > local adressees with userids less than 10. In other > > words, she gets mail the system mails to root, daemon, > > etc. > > ooh! I did -NOT- know it did this. Not thinking it had this was my one > complaint about the package. Can you specify your own MDA (ie procmail) for > this?
I'm afraid that you can't do that (well, the first s in ssmtp stands for simple...). > > mailhub: The place where the mail goes. This is looked up with > > gethostbyname, and so must resolve to an IP address. MX > > records don't count, as several vendors' machines that we > > run ssmtp on (notably suns) don't fully support them. > > They'd be nice, though... > > That's fine for your dialup ISP. > > > rewriteDomain: The place to say the mail came from. This is for > > hostname-hiding, and only applies if the programs is > > compiled with REWRITE_DOMAIN defined. We don't usually have > > to do so (our main mailhubs run zmailer: our clients run all > > sorts of junk). > > Again, fine for a dialup ISP... > > > hostname: the Fully Qualified Domain Name of the machine, in case > > you have set hostname to the short form. > > Ugh. Depending on what it needs this for, it could be not good that it > wants this. Then again, since this thing would probably only run when you > were on the net, it would be no major pain to just configure it in ip-up.d. It is used to write header stuff, to generate the From: line if RewriteDomain is not specified. It is also used to send a HELO command, but this could/should be changed. Regards, Hugo (ssmtp maintainer) -- Hugo Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.via.ecp.fr/~hugo/> PGP2 key id 0x8a5af90d, fingerprint 45AB 8D24 B3E4 C9DD E85C 25C8 DB0B BFA3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]