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Why setup ssmtp when using external smtp relay inside rails?

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
rails
Domain
documentation

Research direction

The issue mentions Rails, ssmtp, SendGrid, and SMTP delivery but names no documentation file, test, or entry point. First clarify whether the docs should explain or remove ssmtp guidance; done means an agreed, specific documentation change addressing external SMTP relays.

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Description

The only reason I can think you might want to use ssmtp is if you cron/other jobs running on the load machine and you want to relay those messages somewhere else. Other that that, if you're using something like sendgrid, why wouldnt' you just use :smtp deliver mode? Even in that case, it doesn't make sense to use :sendmail inside the rails app to me, you should just use :smtp.

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