Comments on: PHP mail() and ssmtp on Debian Linux

By: David Hurst

David Hurst — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:31:05 +0000

If you read the first line of the post you will see that you need to have a working SMTP server to use SSMTP. SSMTP is not a SMTP server - it’s just a utility that forwards mail to a designated server and behaves like sendmail on the command line. This is perfect for when you have a PHP server that you do not want to run a full MTA on.

If you need a full MTA, you will need to install sendmail, postfix or something similar.

By: Anonyme

Anonyme — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:01:05 +0000

mailhub= line to the address of your SMTP server.

What is that? I want to DO smtp server, and that i need always HAVE SMTP server?

By: Eduardo López

Eduardo López — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:52:40 +0000

Greetings and thanks for the guide.

I just wanted to point out that, in my personal case, i had troubles making ssmtp work because of the structure of my user’s password, which contained a special character “#”. I didnt make it work until I realized that, changed the password and all worked perfeclty

I hope that would help someone!

Regards

By: nobrell

nobrell — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:32:52 +0000

Thanks David for a gr8 guide
Works like a charm, and I don’t need to install and configure sendmail on my LAMP just to be able to send out PHP mail()

By: ct

ct — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 07:56:51 +0000

thanks for the guide!
tried to get ssmtp to work on gentoo for 1 day.
didn’t see the authmethod directive .. omg
with this directive, all is working great

By: ap

ap — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:57:27 +0000

Wow. I just spend two days getting my php scripts to send e-mail. Tried setting up postfix, nullmailer, esmtp and ssmtp. All of them worked fine from the command line, but my apache2 error.log kept saying that sendmail couldn’t be found. I’m just learning to administer a Linux server though ssh (which is extremely satisfying once you get something to work) and blog posts like this are a great help for guys like me. Learning as i go.

So, just wanted to say: thanks a bunch, keep ‘m coming!

By: THE_PATRICIAN

THE_PATRICIAN — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:59:49 +0000

Wow, I messed around with postfix and sendmail for hours, this took a few mins, have my babies

Just a tip on ports, I found that you can use this, changing you smtp and port to suit
mailhub=smtp.Yourdomain.com:80

By: DaWaBZ

DaWaBZ — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:39:46 +0000

This is just a thank you for the Hint
I was searching for such a simple - yet efficient - solution
Thanks a lot !

By: David Hurst

David Hurst — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:15:32 +0000

Cheers A-NOM. That’s a better way of doing things - I’ve updated the article above.

By: A-NOM-ynous

A-NOM-ynous — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:31:11 +0000

A slightly more “secure” method that doesn’t expose your SMTP username and password to anyone who sees a phpinfo() page is to set sendmail_path = “/usr/local/sbin/ssmtp -t” and use AuthUser and AuthPass in ssmtp.conf.

Also, ssmtp doesn’t have a -i flag, so it just gets ignored.