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msmtp vs msmtp-mta package, which one to choose?

The Arch Linux Wiki, a great resource in general for all Linux operating systems, explains that msmtp-mta merely creates an alias for sendmail. This means you will have broader support for programs ...
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Cannot find gpg.conf and gpg-agent.conf using gpg 2.2.12 on Raspbian Buster

I cannot find the file gpg-conf nor the file gpg-agent.conf It's no big deal, just create it. Without it Gnupg is running with default options. If you want to manually enter the passphrase on ...
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About Smarthost TLS Fingerprints

There's no such thing as "smarthost fingerprint". These are TLS certificate fingerprints, which just happen to belong to SMTP relay servers (smarthosts) in this context – but everything here applies ...
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msmtp vs msmtp-mta package, which one to choose?

The package description for msmtp-mta documents that it is a wrapper which will pull in msmtp as a dependency anyway. This package provides the regular MTA program. This is somewhat obscure, but ...
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How do I get mdadm to send its emails via msmtp?

I believe I have fixed the problem. For anyone else who runs across this: Add both the following lines into /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf MAILADDR <recipient> MAILFROM <sender> Create a ...
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Difference between SMTPd and SMTP

The article Postfix Architecture Overview holds this information. How Postfix receives mail How Postfix delivers mail It describes these composants: Network mail enters Postfix via the smtpd(8) or ...
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getting errors trying to send email using msmtp

The default behavior for tls on is to expect a plain SMTP connection and upgrade it to TLS using the STARTTLS command, as you would usually have on port 587 (or sometimes port 25). Port 465 isn't ...
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how to send mail attachment from ubuntu 16.04 using Gmail service?

You can use two Ubuntu's console's packages: msmtp and mutt to send email attachment. Install packages : sudo apt-get install msmtp mutt ca-certificates Configure msmtp to use existing email as ...
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NAS4Free email broken (Gmail)

This bug was fixed in version 11.0.0.4 - Sayyadina (revision 3460), released on 2017-01-17. Per the changelog, they "Fix[ed] don't add domain parameter when domain is empty." The bad /var/etc/msmtp....
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send mail through msmtp

On CentOS 7.3 behind a firewall, My /etc/msmtprc: defaults logfile /var/log/msmtp.log domain localhost auth on port 465 host smtp.gmail.com tls on tls_starttls off auth on tls_trust_file /etc/ssl/...
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