Package: ssmtp Dear Debian developers,
in NixOS[1], configuration files are usually stored in the world-readable Nix store. Because of this it's important not to store secrets in those files. ssmtp.conf contains the AuthPass parameter which specifies the password for the smtp server. In NixOS we're planning[2] to patch ssmtp such that it also supports an AuthPassFile parameter. With that parameter users can specify a file which contains the password so that they can keep ssmtp.conf in the Nix store but keep the password in a more secure location. The following is the patch for ssmtp: https://github.com/LumiGuide/nixpkgs/blob/ssmtp-AuthPassFile/pkgs/tools/networking/ssmtp/ssmtp_support_AuthPassFile_parameter.patch It would be great if this could be merged into ssmtp. Regards, Bas van Dijk [1] http://nixos.org/ [2] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/24331
