Sending system mail to remote mail server

[Yuri Pankov]

@lbutlr wrote:
> On 09 Jul 2020, at 06:47, @lbutlr <kremels at kreme.com> wrote:
>>> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/outgoing-only.html
>>
>> Excellent! That was super simple. Thank you!
> 
> Oops. I lied. I don't see how to start the service/enable ssmtp. I have disabled and stopped sendmail but if I send a mail to root on the command=line I get this in maillog:
> 
> Jul  9 06:55:12 ns2 sendmail[50730]: 069CtCrh050730: to=root, ctladdr=lbutlr (1001/1001), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30068, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
> 
> There's nothing for ssmtp listed in service -e

It's not a service, and did you follow the instructions in ssmpt's 
pkg-message?