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SSMTP is a send-only sendmail emulator for machines which normally pick their mail up from a centralized mailhub (via pop, imap, nfs mounts or other means). It provides the functionality required for humans and programs to send mail via the standard or /usr/bin/mail user agents.

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How do I set up ssmtp for use with Fastmail?

There are plenty of guides on the web about setting up ssmtp for Gmail, but it's a bit different for different providers. How should it be done for fastmail.com?
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SSMTP on Ubuntu 18.10 server stopped sending email through GMail

I use SSMTP on many of our servers. As of June 6th 2019 I can no longer get SSMTP on any of my ubuntu servers to send email. I have some raspberry pies using the same scripts and they send just fine. On site and offsite using different Google domain…
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ssmtp - can I whitelist recipients so that I do not accidentally email customers from my dev system?

I use ssmtp to test emails sent from my development web server. Sometimes I want to test things that went wrong for a customer and need to use their email address to bring up records etc. on a test system. What I really don't want is to…
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sSMTP is behaving strangely

I have bash script that runs daily on customer's Ubuntu 20.04 server. This simple script rsyncs a bunch of files from one location to the another. While copying, it creates a log file with basic info: start time, end time, number of copied files.…
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ssmtp and logcheck

Ubuntu 18.04 ssmtp is running, and following command works correctly: echo "This is a test" | mail -s "test subject" username@gmail.com username@gmail.com receives the message via gmail, but message appears to be from root@[servername] which…
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ssmtp not working with outlook account

I have been trying to send emails with ssmtp through my outlook account. I followed this page and this is what I have inside…
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