On Wednesday 26 January 2011 04:04:16 Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 10:34:11PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote > > > This is working fine. But there are other PCs in the LAN, which I > > would also like to get status emails from. Being not the only one > > with root access there, I do not want to duplicate the ssmtp setup > > because of the password stored in ssmtp.conf. > > ??? What password in ssmtp.conf ??? My /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf has 4 > uncommented lines. They are... > > The "root=" entry > The "mailhub=" entry > The "hostname=" entry > FromLineOverride=YES > > That's it. What setup are you using that requires a password in > ssmtp.conf?
If you set it up to email you stuff using e.g. your email account, you would also need authentication credentials: AuthUser=waltd...@waltdnes.org AuthPass=walters_secret_passwd and to stop sending such info in the clear you would also use something like: UseSTARTTLS=YES or UseTLS=YES -- Regards, Mick
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