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Old 03-31-2017, 04:27 AM   #1
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Understanding sSMTP configuration


Ubuntu 14.04

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

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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?
 
Old 03-31-2017, 04:58 AM   #2
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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.
 
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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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