On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 02:05:06PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.10.0939 +0200]: > > ssmtp seems to be its competitor, not nullmailer. (ssmtp and msmtp > > appear to provide /usr/bin/sendmail only, while nullmailer appears to > > provide port 25 only.) > > > > But otherwise it's a good question.. > > Yes, which I would like to answer myself: I am now in favour of > msmtp simply because it provides for cryptography. In the long run, > I would rather like to see ssmtp and nullmailer removed in favour of > msmtp, because in the long run, unencrypted SMTP should not be > supported.
ssmtp seems to support SSL/TLS connections also. The package depends on libssl and a quick glance at the source shows that support is there. Looks like my description of nullmailer above was wrong. I read its description "relay-only" to mean that it only does relaying, ie it's an SMTP proxy of some kind. However it seems to be yet another /usr/sbin/sendmail. However it sounds like msmtp doesn't provide /usr/sbin/sendmail, so it cannot provide: mail-transport-agent, nor replace ssmtp etc. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
