Questions tagged [ssmtp]

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Linux configuration -- ssmtp: Cannot open smtp.gmail.com:587

Hi I have RHEL5 with ssmtp installed on it ssmtp-2.61-22.el5.i386.rpm my /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf updated as below…
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sSMTP no longer works - 'Invalid response: 501 5.5.4 HELO/EHLO argument MYEMAILADDRESS@gmail.com invalid, closing connection.'

As the title/tags say, I run sSMTP on Linux for a PHP server. Whenever I try to send an email, I get these errors (that do not show up in PHP, only in the logs/ 'sudo service sendmail status' or 'sudo service php5-fpm status') From…
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How to fix error with sending email using gmail?

I want to send email in my php/laravel app in ubuntu 18 under Digital Ocean and I found this https://semantiko.com/how-to-fix-php-mail-function-on-ubuntu-server/ article I filled related config files and send several email and I found in…
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Is there any solution to execute binary in container that mount from host?

In my case , I have installed ssmtp package on my Unix based host . Because of some reason , the best way in my situation is using ssmtp binary(under /usr/sbin) on my host to send mail (html file) in my APP container . I attemp to mount the host…
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Setting up sendgrid for rails..returning Authorization error

The emails now send from my local, but do not send from my box. I am returned this error. Anyone know what this might be? Net::SMTPAuthenticationError (535 5.7.8 Error: authentication failed: authentication failure ): My environments/production.rb…
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How to change sender name in ssmtp?

I have installed ssmtp on my Linux server. Apache server works under www-data user, and send mail from ssmtp. In recieved emails I see www-data in sender name. How can I change it? Here`s my…
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ssmtp: 550 invalid DNS MX or A/AAAA resource record

I am trying to send a mail from centos machine, but I came to a problem. I have installed "mail" and ssmtp inside my linux machine and I got this response when I try to send a mail. ssmtp: 550 invalid DNS MX or A/AAAA resource…
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how to send mail in python ssmtp vs smtplib

I need to send email in delbian linux. How to send? I run my server on 256 MB linux box and I heard postfix and sendmail is overkill. Recently I came across the ssmtp, that seems to be an executable, needs to be executed as a process and called…
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inserting system date into subject field of ssmtp email

I'd like to know the syntax for inserting the current date/time into the subject line of an email sent by ssmtp. I've got a cronjob emailing the tail of my syslog whenever the system reboots. Here is the the cronjob: @reboot tail -1000…
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sSMTP rewriting "From" field in emails

My problem is that whenever my server sends emails, the sender field gets overwritten. From: should be: Web Site Name But email is delivered to the address from: World Wide Web Owner Or while sending the…
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How do I use ssmtp for sending mail in php?

I am using Ubuntu 19.10. I have just installed ssmtp and reconfigured the file /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf as given in https://www.nixtutor.com/linux/send-mail-with-gmail-and-ssmtp/ So my /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf looks like - # Make this empty to disable…
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Crontab/sSMTP Raspberry Pi sending mail from crontab

I'm having a problem where I made a shell file to send me an email. I then put this shell file to be run by crontab at reboot (I reboot daily at 5am before I go to school) sSMTP works already because when i goto the /usr/scripts directory and i run…
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Using ssmtp to send HTML e-mails with mail (sendmail)

I configured my ssmtp as…
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mail: failed to open stream: Permission denied?

I get this warning sending mails with php Warning: mail(1) [function.mail]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/... using ssmtp and gmail as smtp PHP 5.3.1 nothing in the logs (no errors) the mail gets to destination the permissions…
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ssmtp in docker image

I'm trying to setup ssmtp (for sendmail) in Docker image. To do so I've created the folowing Dockerfile: FROM php:7.4-apache # Install paquet requirements RUN set -ex; \ # Install required system packages apt-get update; \ apt-get…
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