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Questions tagged [mta]

MTA or Mail Transfer again; Is a software for sending emails from one machine (sometimes mail server) to a specific destination(s) or email addresses.

MTA is software that transfers electronic mail messages from one computer. An MTA implements both the client (sending) and server (receiving) portions of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.

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Debian: An MTA just to solve dependencies, not because I really need one

It has bothered me for years that with every new Debian installation, a full MTA (Mail Transport Agent) was installed even if I had no desire to use the machine as a mail server. The MTA was necessary to satisfy package dependencies, though. I ended…
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Change OS Name from email send by exim

OS: FREEBSD 9 OS ROLE: SERVER MAIL SERVER: EXIM When I send mail from my freebsd server to gmail. and when i click on show original. I shows my os name too along with mta name. as in first line of following quote. Received: from root by…
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How can I configure Postfix to silently drop/discard/reject mails that were sent from specific users to an external address?

How can I configure Postfix to silently drop/discard/reject mails that were sent from specific users to an external address? It should work only for specific users E.g: abc@localdomain can send mail to only @localdomain users. abc@localdomain can…
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Restrict emails to system users in postfix?

I am running postfix, and it seems it is willing to accept emails for system users, such as man, sshd, daemon, www-data, ... Is desirable (probably not)? and what I can do to disable this?
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Do I Need Nullmailer-send running?

Further to my posting here: Why does my CMS run extremely slow in my workstation (Ubuntu) I now ask "Do I need Nullmailer-Send" running? The reason I ask, is that earlier this year (2013) I had issues regarding large .log files being created in…
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Postfix, SMTP Server, PHPMailer

I have an PHP Forum (vanilla forums) and for its registration emails I installed Postfix. Now As I figured it out, vanilla forums uses PHPMailer for email sending procedure. Now my questions are: Is Postfix an SMTP Server? Could it fulfill the…
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How to Use Domainkeys and DKIM both with exim on freebsd server machine

I have setup exim mta on freebsd. I have also setup DKIM on this machine and my mails are properly signed. I want to know how to setup Domainkeys along with DKIM on exim so that my mails are signedf both by Domainkeys as well DKIM. This is because…
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