sendmail or ssmtp or ??

[Amos Shapira]

Why do you need an SMTP server? You need an SMTP client talking to
whichever SMTP server your hosting provider provides you.
e.g. https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer (I only remember it because of
a security flaw published about it last week, but it's PHP so... meh.)

On 6 January 2017 at 07:34, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 5 Jan 2017 14:45:58 +0100
> Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir at cohens.org.il> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Nullmailer queues. It doesn't perform some other SMTP functionalities,
> but it queues. You can see it happen by ls'ing the queue directory
> while sending a bunch of email with it.
>
> I've never been able to have Nullmailer deliver messages to my local
> machine, probably because I just don't know how.
>
> SteveT
>
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