/ssmtp

Send mail via smtp, for people who don't like sendfail(8) on simple machines

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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.

Author:
  David Collier-Brown, davecb@yorku.ca, davecb@sni.ca or dave@lethe.uucp

Patchlevel:
  Version 2.0

Copying conditions:
  None. This program is in the public domain.


--dave