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On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Reinhold May wrote: > I've been using ssmtp quite successfully for some time now > but I've just recently found out that my email provider now > supports smtp over ssl and I'd really like to use that. > > Not finding any maintainer homepage for ssmtp, I thought I > just try to contact you as the maintainer of the cygwin version > (and maybe that's the only version there is?). The upstream source is the Debian package at http://packages.debian.org/testing/mail/ssmtp (Hmm; looks like it's time for an upgrade) > First of all, I don't know if the cygwin configuration is by > default configured with '--enable-ssl' as it definitely wasn't > configured with '--enable-logfile' so I wonder, if I have to > compile a new version in the first place (if it's in, I don't). It does not have --enable-ssl on by default; this question is answered in /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/ssmtp*README Perhaps ssmtp should --enable-ssl by default? Opinions? > Secondly, I tried to compile 'ssmtp' configured with > '--enable-ssl' and the linker gives me the following error > message: > > ssmtp.o(.text+0x1716): In function `smtp_open': > /usr/src/ssmtp-2.60.9-3/ssmtp.c:1119: undefined reference to > `_X509_free' > > I commented the line out and I got an executable which I > could install and run, I don't know what the right fix would be. > but even with the options > > UseTLS=YES > UseSTARTTLS=YES > > It still seems to use port 25 to connect to my email > provider's smtp server. I can't figure out to find out if it's > encrypted or not, but I guess not. You have to set the port number yourself. I believe you want 465? So in /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf, you would have a line like mailhub=mail.your.domain:465 Best, Robert -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
