E-Mail through smtp?

[-leliel-]

Hi guys,

I set up ssmtp a long while ago for my local server to send me e-mails with alerts and other stuff. Some programs do fine, for example I get an E-Mail from rkhunter every night. But it seems not to work for the whole system. Is there any better way instead of ssmtp?

This is my conf:

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blackbox patrick # cat /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
#
# /etc/ssmtp.conf -- a config file for sSMTP sendmail.
#

# The person who gets all mail for userids < 1000
# Make this empty to disable rewriting.
root=my@email.com
mailhub=customer-smtp.my-domain.net:2525
rewriteDomain=
FromLineOverride=YES
AuthUser=root@my-domain.net
AuthPass=something

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blackbox patrick # cat /etc/ssmtp/revaliases 
# sSMTP aliases
# 
# Format:       local_account:outgoing_address:mailhub
#
# Example: root:your_login@your.domain:mailhub.your.domain[:port]
# where [:port] is an optional port number that defaults to 25.
root:root@my-domain.net:customer-smtp.my-domain.net:2525

[papal_authority]

SSMTP is definitely the simplest, and probably the best solution for a box that merely offloads mail to another mail server. You can build something similar with sendmail or postfix, but generally it's not worth it IMHO. I use SSMTP on many boxes and my /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf looks similar to yours, the only difference is that I explicitly set the rewriteDomain line which is usually required.

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root=youremail@yourmailserverdomain.net
mailhub=smtp.yourmailserverdomain.net
rewriteDomain=yourmailserverdomain.net
hostname=localhostname
FromLineOverride=YES
AuthUser=user@yourmailserverdomain.net
AuthPass=password