sendmail or ssmtp or ??

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 02:44:00PM +0200, David Suna wrote:
> I have an Ubuntu machine that I am using to develop PHP based web
> application. I now need to configure it so that PHP can send out mail. The
> default seems to be to install sendmail. However, I have seen comments that
> sendmail is overkill and some references to ssmtp.

The main difference is that ssmtp and nullmailer (and other similar
"sendmails") don't queue. This greatly simplifies them.

> 
> What would be the recommended way to configure this? Sendmail, ssmtp or
> something else?

I tried using ssmtp for some servers. It lacked too many basic features.
Nullmailer came closer. I don't recall the specific issues now, though.
But I ended up using either postfix. Or even exim4 in some cases where I
didn't bother.

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