Can get but can't send mail from my Red Hat 9

Geoff Shang gshang at uq.net.au
Sun Oct 26 09:40:57 EST 2003


Hi:

there's two ways you can do this.  You can either get  your mail server to
talk to your ISP's SMTP server, or you can get your mail program to do it
directly.  The advantage of getting your mail server to do it is that if
you have more than one user on your system, you will be able to send mail
locally between them and also you will only have to configure the outgoing
mail thing in one place, rather than have potentially several different
mail clients configured to do it direct to your ISP.  IT also has the
advantage that, if you use dialup, your mail server can queue the outgoing
mail and send it all when you connect to your ISP, and this won't get in
the way of anything else you're doing.

Exactly how you do this will depend on which mail server you are running
(for the first method) or which mail program you use (for the second).

Geoff.





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