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Re: just mail forwarding to smart mailer

From Curt <curty@free.fr>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: just mail forwarding to smart mailer
Date 2019-04-17 11:20 +0200
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On 2019-04-16, Bonno Bloksma <b.bloksma@tio.nl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>>> > I am looking for an "easy light weight just empty the local queue 
>>> > and very very very easy thing: https://wiki.debian.org/sSMTP
>>
>> Note that sSMTP does not perform server certificate verification, thus allowing, e.g., credential stealing via MITM attacks. Furthermore, it neglects to document this failing, although we're working on this ;)
>>
>
> That is not a problem for me, all mail traffic will be inside out own LAN.
> The wiki has very little info. Like, if it is not a daemon then how does the mail even leave the system? When will the program become active to send the mail to the smarthost?

ssmtp seems more a lightweight solution for handing off email to an
*external* smarthost. There is no local queue or daemon.

Maybe for your lan-only case opensmtpd might be the ticket.

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

> Where can I find more info? It seems this might be my lightweight solution. Using Google for ssmtp gives mostly links to secure smtp.
>
> Bonno Bloksma
>


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Re: just mail forwarding to smart mailer 황병희 <soyeomul@red-october.yw.doraji.xyz> - 2019-04-14 15:20 +0200
  Re: just mail forwarding to smart mailer Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2019-04-16 15:20 +0200
    Re: just mail forwarding to smart mailer Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2019-04-16 16:50 +0200
    RE: just mail forwarding to smart mailer Bonno Bloksma <b.bloksma@tio.nl> - 2019-04-17 06:30 +0200
    Re: just mail forwarding to smart mailer Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-04-17 11:20 +0200

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