Re: Balsa and libesmtp

[Jack <ostroffjh users sourceforge net>]

On 2016.03.16 12:56, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> On Mar 16, 2016, at 12:25 PM, Jack wrote:
> > On 2016.03.16 03:24, Paul Lewis wrote:

> > > What is Balsa using as an smtp transport these days, Brian Stafford  
> > > used to maintain libesmtp but his site, seems to be dead.

> > As a user, it seems to me that balsa doesn't include or specify a  
> > specific smtp transport.  I've been using ssmtp, and the Gentoo link  
> > to source is ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/ssmtp/ .
>
> Balsa still links to libesmtp:
>
> $ ldd `which balsa` | grep smtp
>         libesmtp.so.6 => /lib64/libesmtp.so.6 (0x00007fc927cee000)
>
> Pawel has worked on fixing at least one security issue since Brian  
> went out of sight.
>
> Peter

Interesting.  Perhaps not really relevant, but Gentoo distinguishes  
separate packages for
- esmtp (http://esmtp.sourceforge.net/) which does indicate no longer  
maintained, and
- libesmtp (http://www.stafford.uklinux.net/libesmtp/) I can't get any  
connection to the site

Jack