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

By: Hayk

Hayk — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:44:00 +0000

Hello David, i did all the suggested changes on my Debian Squeeze server. But i can’t send e-mail.

Should i also leave the settings SMTP localhost
and smtp_port 25 in php.ini ?
also when i do
ps ax | grep ssmtp i do not get any running processes.

By: ubuntu lover

ubuntu lover — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:38:30 +0000

You can also send mail from gmail account by using smtp.gmail.com:587 server http://ubuntu-for-humans.blogspot.com/2010/04/sending-emails-from-ubuntu-without.html

By: Maneet Puri

Maneet Puri — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 13:13:06 +0000

Great tutorial David.
Thanks

By: José Luis

José Luis — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 02:32:12 +0000

David, thank you very much for the information.
I use Lighttpd Server instead of Apache Server. Can you tell me what is the equivalence of “/etc/php5/apache2/php.ini” ?.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:50:20 +0000

You’ve saved me so much time with this! Here is how I used it: http://serverfault.com/q/225308/59562 . Thank you thank you thank you!!!

By: David Hurst

David Hurst — Mon, 31 May 2010 19:48:50 +0000

Robbin,

This will very much depend on the configuration of the SMTP server you are using and how it is set to authorise. Thanks for posting though, might help someone else with the same issue.

Regards,

David

By: robbin

robbin — Mon, 31 May 2010 07:40:46 +0000

I found an error when i test a php code,
ssmtp: 553 You are not authorized to send mail, authentication is required

but finally I fixed, in the mail function, which needs the ‘From’ header, so it should be mail($to, $title, $body, ‘From: aaa@stmp.com‘);

I posted here so that it would be helpful for others.

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