[Bug 311008] [NEW] ssmtp.conf options like (AuthUser, AuthPass, UseTLS) should be documented

[Marques Johansson]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: ssmtp

The options AuthUser, AuthPass, and UseTLS (amongst others) are not not
documented in the man page for sSMTP, included in debconf, and there
isn't an ssmtp.conf man page.

The Auth options aren't even mentioned in the README.Debian file, and
there are no remarked out examples or comments in the sample ssmtprc
file.

Also, a HUGE warning should be attached to these options because the
file ssmtprc file is modded a+r, and the ssmtp process is run as the
user (not root) so it must be this way to use authenticated SMTP hubs.
The AuthPass value is given away to all users on the system if present.

These should be added:

mjohansson at bang:/usr/src/nbsmtp-1.00$ strings /usr/sbin/ssmtp | grep ^Set
Set MailHub="%s"
Set Root="%s"
Set RemotePort="%d"
Set HostName="%s"
Set AddHeader="%s"
Set RewriteDomain="%s" used
Set RewriteDomain="%s"
Set FromLineOverride="%s"
Set UseTLS="%s"
Set UseSTARTTLS="%s"
Set UseTLSCert="%s"
Set TLSCert="%s"
Set AuthUser="%s"
Set AuthPass="%s"
Set AuthMethod="%s"
Set UseOldAUTH="%s"
Set RewriteDomain="%s" is invalid

** Affects: ssmtp (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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ssmtp.conf options like (AuthUser, AuthPass, UseTLS) should be documented
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311008
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