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Aquarius_Girl 03-31-2017 04:27 AM
Understanding sSMTP configuration
 
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


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