Comments on: Send Mail with Gmail and sSMTP

By: Setup a server - HELP - Internet Talk | TechEnclave

Setup a server - HELP - Internet Talk | TechEnclave — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:12:31 +0000

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By: G O Free =:)

G O Free =:) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:20:52 +0000

Oh yeah…

As above…

Don’t use ’sudo’ unless you want your emails to appear from ‘root’.

Add ’smtp’ directory to the PATH of your normal USER, and run as normal user.

(Edit ‘/etc/ssmtp/revaliases’ with your normal user name as “localusername”, as in tutorial.)

Thanks!

By: romulus

romulus — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:56:21 +0000

Barrydocks, or anyone else who has that problem – you can add To, From and Subject fields (others I don’t know about). See above, the comment by Blake from 7/1/2009.

By: Badcam

Badcam — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:07:32 +0000

@Barrydocks

Just follow what Blake does and include a
From: youremail@email.com when sending emails.

You can also do:

From: AnythingYouLike

I’d like to know if there’s a way to have this set in the ssmtp.conf file.

Cheers.

By: Barrydocks

Barrydocks — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:24:00 +0000

Excellent howto, I have been struggling to set up postfix or exim to act as a simple e-mail reporting system for my server. This worked first time. I assume I just forward all the kernel messages from root to a user and then to an external account?

Is there anyway of changing the sender name, I simply get messages from “root”?

Thanks

By: Site monitoring with Python and cron - Eric Wendelin’s Blog

Site monitoring with Python and cron - Eric Wendelin’s Blog — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:03:33 +0000

[...] You must have some sort of mailer daemon installed. See How to setup Gmail with sSMTP. You can try it out by editing the appropriate parts of the script and then [...]

By: Mark Sanborn

Mark Sanborn — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:11:59 +0000

@Linuxadmin

Yes it kinda is… You can chmod 600 it. If you find a better way definitely let me know.

By: linux admin

linux admin — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:06:03 +0000

i added them and it worked however isn’t it insecure to store the password as plain text ?

By: linux admin

linux admin — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:49:42 +0000

my file /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf doesn’t contain any of the following

UseSTARTTLS=YES
AuthUser=username
AuthPass=password

do i need to add those ?

By: linux admin

linux admin — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:01:13 +0000

nice tutorial im going to try this on my linux server