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-sSMTP, replaces sendmail on workstations that should send their mail via the
-departmental mailhub from which they pick up their mail (via pop, imap, rsmtp,
-pop_fetch, NFS... or the like). This program accepts mail and sends it to the
-mailhub, optionally replacing the domain in the From: line with a different
-one.
+ssmtp (extremely simple MTA to get mail off the system to a mail hub)
-NOTE:
-After installing, please run /usr/sbin/generate_config /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
+sSMTP, replaces sendmail on workstations that should send their mail
+via the departmental mailhub from which they pick up their mail (via
+pop, imap, rsmtp, pop_fetch, NFS... or the like). This program accepts
+mail and sends it to the mailhub, optionally replacing the domain in
+the From: line with a different one.
+
+Normally, when using ssmtp, you want to remove the OS's MTA
+package(s), sendmail and/or postfix. In this case, ssmtp will
+be symlinked to /usr/sbin/sendmail, and software that sends mail
+shouldn't have to be modified. If you keep sendmail/postfix installed,
+there's no conflict, but any software that sends mail will have to be
+configured or modified to use /usr/sbin/ssmtp.
+
+NOTE: After installing, you'll want to edit "/etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf".
+There's a man page for it (man ssmtp.conf).