SSMTP.CONF(5) BSD File Formats Manual SSMTP.CONF(5)NAMEssmtp.conf — ssmtp configuration file
DESCRIPTION
ssmtp reads configuration data from /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf The file con‐
tains keyword-argument pairs, one per line. Lines starting with ‘#’ and
empty lines are interpreted as comments.
The possible keywords and their meanings are as follows (both are case-
insensitive):
Root The user that gets all mail for userids less than 1000. If blank,
address rewriting is disabled.
Mailhub
The host to send mail to, in the form host | IP_addr [: port].
The default port is 25.
RewriteDomain
The domain from which mail seems to come. for user authentica‐
tion.
Hostname
The full qualified name of the host. If not specified, the host
is queried for its hostname.
FromLineOverride
Specifies whether the From header of an email, if any, may over‐
ride the default domain. The default is “no”.
UseTLS Specifies whether ssmtp uses TLS to talk to the SMTP server. The
default is “no”.
UseSTARTTLS
Specifies whether ssmtp does a EHLO/STARTTLS before starting SSL
negotiation. See RFC 2487.
TLSCert
The file name of an RSA certificate to use for TLS, if required.
TLSKey The file name of an RSA key to use for TLS, if required.
TLS_CA_File
A file of trusted certificates for validating the server, if
required.
TLS_CA_Dir
A directory of trusted certificates for validating the server, if
required.
AuthUser
The user name to use for SMTP AUTH. The default is blank, in
which case SMTP AUTH is not used. sent without
AuthPass
The password to use for SMTP AUTH.
AuthMethod
The authorization method to use. If unset, plain text is used.
May also be set to “cram-md5”.
FILES
/etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
Contains configuration data for ssmtp.
SEE ALSOssmtp(8)AUTHORS
Matt Ryan (mryan@debian.org), Hugo Haas (hugo@debian.org), Christoph
Lameter (clameter@debian.org) and Dave Collier-Brown (dav‐
ecb@hobbes.ss.org). Reuben Thomas (rrt@sc3d.org) wrote the man page.
BSD October 7, 2004 BSD
