Purpose and value: This is sSMTP, a program that replaces sendmail on workstations that should send their mail via the departmental mailhub from which they pick up their mail (via pop, imap, rsmtp, pop_fetch, NFS... or the like). This program accepts mail and sends it to the mailhub, optionally replacing the domain in the From: line with a different one. WARNING: the above is all it does. It does not receive mail, expand aliases or manage a queue. That belongs on a mailhub with a system administrator. The man page (ssmtp.8) and the program logic manual (ssmtp_plm) discuss the limitations in more detail. It uses a minimum of external configuration information, and so can be installed by copying the (right!) binary and an optional four-line config file to a given machine. Type of systems supported: Berkeley-derived, or ones otherwise using /user/lib/sendmail as a mail transfer agent. In use on SunOS 4.1.1, NextStep 2.x/3 and Ultrix 4.2, tested briefly on AIX 3.2 and RISCos. Tested by others on DG U/X 5 and SVR4. Dependencies: External: Berkeley sockets and supporting libraries. Known limitations: This is not a complete sendmail. It is only a program to post mail to a mailhub for people who don't **want** a complete sendmail. Therefore, a lot of flags are not supported. The header is limited to 4K and the number of recipients to 100. Known problems: Pine uses a lot of sophiticated options to talk to sendmail, and uses batched SMTP input which is not supported. The solution is to use your mailhub as smtpserver in pine.conf. If the mailhub is not reachable, sSMTP will fail. Authors: David Collier-Brown, davecb@hobbes.ss.org, davecb@sni.ca or dave@lethe.uucp Christoph Lameter, clameter@debian.org, clameter@waterf.org, clameter@i-m-f.org Hugo Haas, hugo@debian.org, hugo@larve.net, hugo@via.ecp.fr Current Maintainer: Matt Ryan, mryan@debian.org, matt.ryan@banana.org.uk Patchlevel: Version 2.38 Copying conditions: GNU GPL
