I'm trying to use sSMTP for simple sending of mail from the command line. I am running Mandrake 9.1 with sSMTP version 2.60.3.

The setup right now is:

getmail -> active spam killer -> sSMTP (to send confirmations).

ask fails with the following message: (sendmail: Cannot open mailhub:25).

I have the same setup working on a gentoo 1.4 box, and can't figure out what's different about the mandrake configuration. Could it have somethint to do with security settings?

I tried adding a smtp config to xinetd.d that looks like:

service smtp
{
port = 25
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
wait = no
user = root
only_from = 127.0.0.1
server = /usr/sbin/sendmail
log_on_failure += USERID
disable = no
}

/usr/sbin/sendmail has a symlink to /usr/sbin/ssmtp

Any ideas?

tia,

steve