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What email features/functionality are baked into a typical Linux/GNU distro? [closed]

I am curious how system daemons on a local Linux host send email. Is there some type of email framework already built in? Do I need a MTA or a MUA? What part does "Sendmail" play and is it a ...
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Postfix header_checks

I want to forward a copy of the users email which has the specific subject. I have tried the below settings, able to Redirect that particular subject mail. But I want to forward a copy of that mail to ...
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Unmanaged VPS bought today. Sendmail not functioning correctly

I purchased an unmanaged VPS today. I moved my website on over, and when I try to send an email. It returns a blank page. Not to mention I had to install PHP myself. Apache was there, for some reason, ...
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How are email headers generated?

When you send an email a header is part of the message. For example, when you check your mail you can view the raw source and see the headers, which has information about the sender of email in it, ...
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sendmail command not working, huge delay, no errors, no delivery [closed]

I've set up sendmail on the virtual host I rent (Ubuntu 10.10 Linux 2.6.35-22-server) and I can't get it to work, or even see any error messages to give me a clue of why it isn't working. The only ...
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Is there a way to completely disable outbound opportunistic TLS support in SendMail?

CentOS 5.x SendMail 8.14.4 An overzealous network security feature is causing TLS negotiations to fail when my Sendmail server tries to talk to external hosts. This is causing sendmail to constantly ...
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How to send the email which is sleeping in my queue list?

When i send email it sleep in my queue list. How can i send them out? (Fedora 15 distro). # mailq /var/spool/mqueue (2 requests) -----Q-ID----- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ...
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How to send non-local mail, with GMail(GApps) SMTP?

I have some (~3) Debian boxes, and I want to post system mail to my non-local mailbox. But I have a problem with configuring exim4. Also I don't like so much exim4's config. Too different, and also ...
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Apache mail sending flowchart / workflow?

I am currently trying to get my head into learning how Linux systems send mail, starting from Apache, to Sendmail and finally out the door. Specifically I'm using CentOS 5 which is using Sendmail, ...
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Help with piped program in sendmail's /etc/aliases

I'm trying some sort of auto-subscription via a homegrown script. I know it can be achieved by mailing lists such as Mailman but I also want to learn at the same time on how to do it by hand. Here's ...
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What is the MIME equivalent of uuencode for sendmail?

e.g., I've got files I want to send by sendmail but the receiving mailbox (for posting pictures to my blog) will not accept uuencode files a la $uuencode file | sendmail user@domain I'm guessing ...