ssmtp: ssmtp (Extremely simple MTA to get mail off the system to a Mailhub) ssmtp: ssmtp: A secure, effective and simple way of getting mail off a system to ssmtp: your mail hub. It contains no suid-binaries or other dangerous things ssmtp: no mail spool to poke around in, and no daemons running in the ssmtp: background. Mail is simply forwarded to the configured mailhost. ssmtp: Extremely easy configuration. ssmtp: ssmtp: WARNING: the above is all it does; it does not receive mail, expand ssmtp: aliases or manage a queue. That belongs on a mail hub with a system ssmtp: administrator.