1SSMTP.CONF(5)               BSD File Formats Manual              SSMTP.CONF(5)
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NAME

4     ssmtp.conf — ssmtp configuration file
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DESCRIPTION

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‐
23             tion.
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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
47             required.
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49     TLS_CA_Dir
50             A directory of trusted certificates for validating the server, if
51             required.
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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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FILES

65     /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
66             Contains configuration data for ssmtp.
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SEE ALSO

69     ssmtp(8)
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AUTHORS

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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