How To Install ssmtp on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ssmtp on CentOS 7.
What is 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. WARNING expand aliases or manage a queue. That belongs on a mail hub with a system administrator.
We can use yum or dnf to install ssmtp on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ssmtp.
Install ssmtp on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install ssmtp using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ssmtp
Install ssmtp on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install ssmtp using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ssmtp
How To Uninstall ssmtp on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the ssmtp package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ssmtp
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ssmtp on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
