ciucca Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 I installed "ssmtp_2.62" to send emails to myself from the unRAID server and I am having an issue. Verizon started using port 465 for the smtp server with SSL security. No matter what I put in the configuration variables I cannot get the email to work. If I use the 465 port "outgoing.verizon.net:465" in the configuration, no matter what I put in the other fields, the test "echo -e "Subject: a test\n\nThis is the email body." | ssmtp -d root" will hang, until I kill SSMTP. If I use the email server with the default port 25, ssmtp will send the message, but I will never receive it since they no longer pass email through the unsecure port. Can anyone using Verizon tell me how to get this to work? The contents of "ssmtp.conf" [email protected] mailhub=outgoing.verizon.net:465 hostname=localhost UseSTARTTLS=YES and NO // tried both encrytion is SSL AuthUser=myname AuthPass=***** FromLineOverride=YES Thanks for any help you can give. Quote Link to comment
ciucca Posted February 1, 2012 Author Share Posted February 1, 2012 In case anyone is interested; I solved the issue. The hostname needs to be a valid name, so I used the dydns name I have. Also for some reason the outgoing port 465 does not work, it only works for windows applications. It needs to be a different number for the secure port (587). Quote Link to comment
tron Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 Is this still working for you? I used your guide for my settings, but when I type "echo -e "Subject: a test\n\nThis is the email body." | ssmtp -d root", it just hangs there, and I never get any error messages. Quote Link to comment
ejhuzy Posted November 2, 2012 Share Posted November 2, 2012 If you're using a static IP, make sure you have your DNS IP address correct on the unRAID machine. I didn't and that would cause ssmtp to hang and ultimately not connect. Quote Link to comment
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