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Is it possible to send email from local linux machine to internet?

I have a linux machine running at home. I installed sendmail as MTA. But I can't send email outside to internet email addresses. I am not sure whether it's because the config of my sendmail or ...
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MTA to use local mail for system messages

I need an MTA installed for system messages (not for real e-mail functionality) but 'all' I can find are manuals and howtos to set up an email server. How do I install an MTA to receive local mail ...
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How to install and Configure MTA on Linux [closed]

I need to know which MTA is better and simple to handle and configure in linux, as I need to run a script that will send me the output of a command launched regularly using cron. The case is the ...
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How does “sendmail” send mails to any domain name?

I noticed that one of our servers (running Ubuntu) can send mails to any domain (yahoo.com ,gmail.com) using simple "sendmail" command. But I cannot figure out how to configure similar setup in a new ...
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Esmtp, causes of non-delivery?

I need to build a quick and dirty mail delivery system based on php mail function. Since for mutt I already use esmtp, I've configured my php.ini to use it as well: I've placed a configuration in ...
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Freebsd jail imap/mta config recommendations

I got acces to my "own" FreeBsd jail. The jail has only basic, unconfigured system, but i got full access to FreeBsd ports, and (jail)root too. Now i need setup my jail as IMAP/MTA. The question: ...
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Is there an MTA that can store TLS authentication details securely?

I'm setting up my email client (mutt) on a new laptop (running Mac OSX Lion). I want to use SMTP with TLS for sending email. Searching for SMTP+Mutt+TLS reveals that Mutt's inbuilt secure SMTP stuff ...
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Have Ubuntu server prefetch and store mail for a Windows workstation?

I'd like to have my Ubuntu server (that also acts as a file and webserver) pre-fetch my mail from varying mail-accounts and have my Windows workstation fetch it from this Ubuntu server, in stead of ...
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Sendmail+Dovecot Can't receive emails

I have installed sendmail as MTagent on my server. Sendmail works well so, PHP mail() function works perfectly. After, I decided to exploit my mx records so I installed dovecot as pop3/imap server ...
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How to forward email for an entire domain to an email address using SRS (Sender Rewriting Scheme)

I have a domain for which I want to forward all email destined for addresses at that domain to a single email address. For example, I want to forward john@example.com and fred@exapmle.com and ...
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How to get `mail` on a CentOS 6 server (running postfix)

On my old server, and most other devices I have run, there is a provided mail program. On my new CentOS 6 server, running postfix as the MTA, I cannot send command-line email via mail - the tool is ...
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How to specify default MTA?

I'm trying to use the MAILTO function in crontab on my mybookworld (it's a NAS) I've installed a rather unfamiliar (i think) MTA: ESMPT With mutt (console based email client) it works perfectly. But ...
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Setting up mail client on Arch Linux

I want to use command line mail client on the basic installation of Arch Linux, either mail or mutt or some other utility. I read that these are only mail clients means along with them we have to also ...
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What is the best MTA setup for a home/laptop computer (*not* server)?

What is a good MTA (e.g. Postfix or something else) setup for a home computer behind a NAT, or a laptop that is not always online? I've read a lot of Postfix tutorials on how to set it up this way or ...