On 2001.05.20, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Joane Lispton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >What I would like to do is have the mail coming from
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >I figure the place to do this is either in Muttrc or ssmtp.conf.
>
> Just set
>
> host= beechtree.its.com
>
> in your /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf.
>
> If you ever need a different user name in your email address (e.g., your
> username is kmastin but you wish to use the address [EMAIL PROTECTED]),
> what you need is to add a line to /etc/ssmtp/revaliases. The comment on the
> top of that file shows you how you can do it:
>
> local_account:outgoing_address:mailhub
This is something that's always bugged me about ssmtp. I'm
root@domain, where the domain has thousands of unix machines that I
don't operate. People setting up ssmtp *usually* don't take care to
make exemptions for root and other system accounts when they set up
with "host = domain". This causes no end of trouble.
Please, if you use ssmtp with host masquerading in such an environment,
make sure to deal appropriately with all system accounts that might
send mail. You probably should exempt any account that was in your
passwd file before you started adding users.
I'd like to see ssmtp have some way of handling this for the most
common cases by default. I don't use it, though, so I'm not sure what
the right way to do it would be.
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-D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] NSIT University of Chicago
