[ale] a better ssmtp?

[KingBahamut]

Jim the only other ssmtp I know of was bssmtp , which if memory serves
properly, is a dead project. I seem to remember some rabble by the dev that
he went back to postfix. Additionally, I seem to remember hearing that ssmtp
had some odd or big sec holes in it. But I could be wrong.


On 6/23/06, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I use ssmtp to get mail (logchecks, tripwire, etc) off a few distributed
> hosts.  It works, it works well, it emulates basic sendmail
> functionality, and it doesn't require a daemon (it simply provides
> /usr/lib/sendmail).  The problem I have with ssmtp is that it only
> supports one mailhub in it's configuration.  This is great if you only
> have one mailhub that is running 100% of the time (LOL!).  If ssmtp
> can't connect to the mailhub it just barfs and dumps the email in
> ~/dead.letter on distributed host de'jour.   This makes system
> administration a nightmare because if you are doing maintenance on the
> mailhub used by ssmtp then you never if you have to go check for
> dead.letters, let alone on which remote ssmtp host.
>
> Does anyone know of a simple, scaled down, command line mailer that:
>     -doesn't require a running daemon
>     -supports more than 1 mailhub to forward mail
>     -will spool and retry sending failed deliverables
>
> thx,
>
> -Jim P.
>
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