1SSMTP.CONF(5) BSD File Formats Manual SSMTP.CONF(5)
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4 ssmtp.conf — ssmtp configuration file
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7 ssmtp reads configuration data from /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf The file con‐
8 tains keyword-argument pairs, one per line. Lines starting with ‘#’ and
9 empty lines are interpreted as comments.
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11 The possible keywords and their meanings are as follows (both are case-
12 insensitive):
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14 Root The user that gets all mail for userids less than 1000. If blank,
15 address rewriting is disabled.
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17 Mailhub
18 The host to send mail to, in the form host | IP_addr [: port].
19 The default port is 25.
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21 RewriteDomain
22 The domain from which mail seems to come. for user authentica‐
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25 Hostname
26 The full qualified name of the host. If not specified, the host
27 is queried for its hostname.
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29 FromLineOverride
30 Specifies whether the From header of an email, if any, may over‐
31 ride the default domain. The default is “no”.
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33 UseTLS Specifies whether ssmtp uses TLS to talk to the SMTP server. The
34 default is “no”.
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36 UseSTARTTLS
37 Specifies whether ssmtp does a EHLO/STARTTLS before starting SSL
38 negotiation. See RFC 2487.
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40 TLSCert
41 The file name of an RSA certificate to use for TLS, if required.
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43 TLSKey The file name of an RSA key to use for TLS, if required.
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45 TLS_CA_File
46 A file of trusted certificates for validating the server, if
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49 TLS_CA_Dir
50 A directory of trusted certificates for validating the server, if
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53 AuthUser
54 The user name to use for SMTP AUTH. The default is blank, in
55 which case SMTP AUTH is not used. sent without
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57 AuthPass
58 The password to use for SMTP AUTH.
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60 AuthMethod
61 The authorization method to use. If unset, plain text is used.
62 May also be set to “cram-md5”.
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65 /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
66 Contains configuration data for ssmtp.
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69 ssmtp(8)
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72 Matt Ryan (mryan@debian.org), Hugo Haas (hugo@debian.org), Christoph
73 Lameter (clameter@debian.org) and Dave Collier-Brown (dav‐
74 ecb@hobbes.ss.org). Reuben Thomas (rrt@sc3d.org) wrote the man page.
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