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

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.

By: juan

juan — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:49:41 +0000

Thanks your solution worked perfectly i have been working on this issue for 5 hours thanks

By: David Hurst

David Hurst — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:29:46 +0000

Oliver,

Glad I could be of help. Feel free to print and save.

Regards,

David

By: Oliver

Oliver — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:20:34 +0000

Hey David,

Awesome tutorial, saved a load of time, and ssmtp works very fast and its really recommend. Was using sendmail and was really slowwwww, like 2mins or a timeout before sending a few KB of mail.

Nice, and thanks, I’ll print this for personal reference if you dont mind.

By: Luciano

Luciano — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:12:56 +0000

This just saved me a lot of time, thanks!

By: Derek Organ

Derek Organ — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 01:27:07 +0000

Nice on on the the guide.. so much handier than messing around with sendmail and postfix installs.