When a file with a commented-out rewiteDomain was generated (because an
empty value had been given), then any subsequent attempt at setting a
rewrite domain does not get written to the conffile.

Hi,

Here is a patch to resolve this bug.

--- ssmtp.postinst.orig 2007-03-08 06:24:50.000000000 +0000
+++ ssmtp.postinst      2009-02-02 15:34:43.000000000 +0000
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
        test -z "$FromOverride" && FromOverride=NO
        touch /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf.tmp
        chmod 644 /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf.tmp
-       sed
"s/^root=.*/root=$root/;s/^mailhub=.*/mailhub=$mailhub/;s/^rewriteDomain
=.*/rewriteDomain=$rewritedomain/;s/^hostname=.*/hostname=$hostname/;s/^
FromLineOverride=.*/FromLineOverride=$FromOverride/;s/^#FromLineOverride
=.*/FromLineOverride=$FromOverride/" /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf >
/etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf.tmp
+       sed
"s/^root=.*/root=$root/;s/^mailhub=.*/mailhub=$mailhub/;s/^rewriteDomain
=.*/rewriteDomain=$rewritedomain/;s/^#rewriteDomain=.*/rewriteDomain=$re
writedomain/;s/^hostname=.*/hostname=$hostname/;s/^FromLineOverride=.*/F
romLineOverride=$FromOverride/;s/^#FromLineOverride=.*/FromLineOverride=
$FromOverride/" /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf > /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf.tmp
        mv -f /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf.tmp /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
 else
        touch /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf

Sorry for the very long lines.

GRTNX,
RobJE
-- 

Hi,

Any advancement on this bug? I've installed ssmtp and then rerun
dpkg-reconfigure to configure it and the value was not set
correctly, this bug is quite old.

Kind regards

Laurent Bigonville