ssmtp fails to open smtp server

[Gary Schenk]

Message: 5
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 12:49:09 +0000
From: Daniel Bye <freebsd-questions at slightlystrange.org>
Subject: Re: ssmtp fails to open smtp server
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Message-ID: <20041214124908.GB57285 at catflap.slightlystrange.org>
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On Mon, Dec 14, 2004 at 12:49:09 09 +0000, Daniel Bye wrote:

<snip>
 >>
 >> su-2.05b# cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/cf/cf
 >> su: cd: /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/cf/cf: No such file or directory

 >This is actually to be found in /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/cf/

And so it is.

[---snip---]

 >> And then created a ssmtp.conf file thusly:
 >>
 >> su-2.05b# more /usr/local/etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
 >> root=gwschenk at socal.rr.com
 >> mailhub=smtp-server at socal.rr.com
 >> rewriteDomain=socal.rr.com
 >> hostname=fuzz.socal.rr.com
 >>

<snip>

 >It looks to me as if mailhub should be an fqdn of a mail relay server,
 >not an email address...

Yep, these typos are killing me. That got ssmtp working, and I'm sending 
mail out quite nicely with mutt now. However, into each life a little 
rain must fall. Fetchmail is no longer working. After googling the error 
  message I found that fetchmail uses sendmail to deliver mail to my 
mail spool, and I disabled sendmail after installing ssmtp. Hoepfully I 
can find a way to get fetchmail to deliver directly to my spool. Back to 
the man pages.

Thanks for your help.

Gary Schenk