Is SELinux blocking all forward-only mail agents? (esmtp/ssmtp)

[Paul Howarth]

NM wrote:
> I didn't want to have a full-fledged MTA on my machines; I tried both 
> esmtp and ssmtp, and both seem unable to work without tripping on 
> SELinux. It looks like they always inherit the context of the calling 
> program, which doesn't have the rights to, say, connect outside on port 
> 25.
> 
> Is there a way?

Long term, policy for this type of forwarder would need to be written.

Short term, you could try re-using the sendmail policy:

e.g.
# chcon -t sendmail_exec_t /path/to/ssmtp

See if that helps.

Paul.