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ssmtp has been unmaintained for years. msmtp is an actively maintained replacement with better auth method auto-detection and multi-account support. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The template already handles host/port parsing, so the duplicated parsing and validation tasks were unnecessary overhead. Users need to test their configuration regardless. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Role now defaults to Trellis mail_* variables directly, removing the need for var mapping in server.yml. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
ssmtprole with externalroots.msmtpGalaxy rolemsmtp_accountswith per-account overridesmail_*group vars carry over unchanged — no breaking config changesDetails
msmtp-mtapackage provides/usr/sbin/sendmailsymlink (fail2ban etc. unaffected)/etc/msmtprcdeployed with mode0600(credentials in file)php_sendmail_pathupdated from/usr/sbin/ssmtp -tto/usr/bin/msmtp -tmail_*group vars are mapped tomsmtp_*role vars inserver.ymlMigration
ssmtp_*variables must migrate tomsmtp_*equivalentsansible-galaxy install -r galaxy.ymlto install the newroots.msmtproleDocs updates: roots/docs#584
Closes #1482
Test plan
/usr/sbin/sendmailsymlink exists and points to msmtp/etc/msmtprchas mode0600and correct configphp -i | grep sendmail_pathshows/usr/bin/msmtp -t🤖 Generated with Claude Code