ssmtp alias

[BigYellowDog]

I have setup ssmtp using https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EmailAlerts and I can send email on the command line if I specify a recipient.

I can not alias my local user to my Gmail account so that I get email from cron or at jobs. The mail goes to my local user id 'robf' @gmail.com. Since this is an invalid Gmail address I get a bounce back message.

I'm seeing this in /var/log/mail.log

Feb 21 11:57:00 ubuntu sSMTP[497004]: Unable to set robf="account@gmail.com"

[schragge]

Your /etc/ssmtp/revaliases should contain something like

robf:account@gmail.com:smtp.gmail.com:587

[BigYellowDog]

That is exactly what I have in my revaliases file. Any other suggestions? Much appreciate any help.

[robf@ubuntu] ~ $ sudo cat /etc/ssmtp/revaliases
# sSMTP aliases
#
# Format:       local_account:outgoing_address:mailhub
#
# Example: root:your_login@your.domain:mailhub.your.domain[:port]
# where [:port] is an optional port number that defaults to 25.
#
#root:account@gmail.com:smtp.gmail.com:587
robf:account@gmail.com:smtp.gmail.com:587

[schragge]

Use another MTA I guess? Like dma. ssmtp is a nice little MTA, but it was last updated 2009.

[BigYellowDog]

Thanks for the info. I installed msmtp, it works, but is kinda slow with GMail. I'll give dma a try.