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I would like to have cron output sent to an external email address, via a minimal SMTP client that sends via Gmail. I think I need this client to support TLS and /etc/aliases, and I would like configuration to be as simple as possible.

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ssmtp seems to be abandoned. Generally people are using msmtp as an equivalent replacement. Here's a decent howto on how to use msmtp as your system mail transfer agent.

msmtp supports all the standard authentication and encryption protocols such as TLS.

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msmtp does not seem to support aliases, so I can't see how to get root's email from cron to the outside world. – jl6 Apr 17 '11 at 21:49
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aliases are for mail coming in to your system, not going out. For outgoing mail, you rewrite the header and envelope header to control who the mail appears to be from. msmtp can do that. – Phil Hollenback Apr 17 '11 at 22:33
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On my fedora and centos box I run ssmtp which allows me to forward my cron and daily mail to my gmail account.

Works as well as expected and is easy to setup.

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