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A long overdue documentation update to match an age-old code update. * aw/doc-smtp-ssl-cert-path: correct smtp-ssl-cert-path description
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Legacy alias for '--smtp-encryption ssl'.
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--smtp-ssl-cert-path::
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Path to ca-certificates (either a directory or a single file).
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Set it to an empty string to disable certificate verification.
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Defaults to the value set to the 'sendemail.smtpsslcertpath'
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configuration variable, if set, or `/etc/ssl/certs` otherwise.
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Path to a store of trusted CA certificates for SMTP SSL/TLS
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certificate validation (either a directory that has been processed
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by 'c_rehash', or a single file containing one or more PEM format
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certificates concatenated together: see verify(1) -CAfile and
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-CApath for more information on these). Set it to an empty string
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to disable certificate verification. Defaults to the value of the
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'sendemail.smtpsslcertpath' configuration variable, if set, or the
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backing SSL library's compiled-in default otherwise (which should
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be the best choice on most platforms).
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--smtp-user=<user>::
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Username for SMTP-AUTH. Default is the value of 'sendemail.smtpuser';

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