ssmtp-gael

This is NOT an original piece of work, just a snap of ssmtp

A secure, effective and simple way of getting mail off a system to your mail hub. It contains no suid-binaries or other dangerous things - no mail spool to poke around in, and no daemons running in the background. Mail is simply forwarded to the configured mailhost. Extremely easy configuration.

Usage

• Configure ssmtp

sudo vi /var/snap/ssmtp-gael/current/ssmtp.conf

• Create aliases (if needed)

sudo snap alias ssmtp-gael.ssmtp ssmtp

sudo snap alias ssmtp-gael.ssmtp sendmail

sudo snap alias ssmtp-gael.ssmtp mailq

2026-02-18

• New build to resolve CVE-2025-9820/CVE-2025-14831/USN-8043-1

2025-07-15

• ssmtp-gael will now use core24 as most users are on Ubuntu 24.04
• New build to resolve CVE-2025-6395/CVE-2025-32988/CVE-2025-32989/CVE-2025-32990/USN-7635-1

2025-03-12

• New build to resolve CVE-2024-12243/USN-7281-1

2024-04-16

• New build to resolve CVE-2024-28834/CVE-2024-28835/USN-6733-1
• ssmtp-gael will now use core22 as most users are on Ubuntu 22.04

2024-01-23

• New build to resolve CVE-2024-0553/CVE-2024-0567/USN-6593-1

2023-03-01

• New build to resolve CVE-2023-0361/USN-5901-1

2022-08-05

• New build to resolve CVE-2021-4209/CVE-2022-2509/USN-5550-1

2021-08-03

• New build to resolve CVE-2021-20231/CVE-2021-20232/USN-5029-1

2021-04-24

• Initial release