Understanding sSMTP configuration

Aquarius_Girl · 03-31-2017, 04:27 AM

Ubuntu 14.04

From https://www.nixtutor.com/linux/send-...ail-and-ssmtp/

Quote:

We need to then need to edit, ‘/etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf’:

root=username@gmail.com mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587 rewriteDomain= hostname=username@gmail.com UseSTARTTLS=YES AuthUser=username AuthPass=password FromLineOverride=YES

1. What is 587 and what am I supposed to replace it with?

2. `AuthUser` will be the linux user name or the gmail user name?

3. What is `rewriteDomain` all about?

r3sistance · 03-31-2017, 04:58 AM

587 is the port

Code:

$ grep " 587/" /etc/services
submission      587/tcp         msa             # mail message submission
submission      587/udp         msa             # mail message submission

can't answer the other two with anything but a guess tho.

michaelk · 03-31-2017, 05:04 AM

1. It does not change. Google uses different ports for encryption methods. 587 is used for TLS. SSL uses port 465.

2. Your gmail username

3. rewriteDomain=gmail.com

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SSMTP