Re: just mail forwarding to smart mailer
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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