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

when installing msmtp under Debian/Ubuntu, which package should I choose, msmtp or msmtp-mta? what's the differences between them? All the help articles I read install msmtp only, but isn't msmtp-...
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How to continue using msmtp OAuth 2.0 for Gmail in mutt after oob deprecation?

background For two years I've been happily accessing my Gmail accounts with neomutt. I'm sync'ing between neomutt locally and my online Gmail account with mbsync and a "2-Step Verification" ...
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send mail through msmtp

I've been trying to send mail with msmtp with no success Configuration file: ~/.msmtprc defaults auth on tls on tls_trust_file /etc/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt logfile ~/....
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Cannot find gpg.conf and gpg-agent.conf using gpg 2.2.12 on Raspbian Buster

I am using gpg to encrypt my email password that I pass on to msmtp in order to send email. I initially ran gpg --full-gen-key to generate a pair of keys. During the process, it asked me for a ...
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About Smarthost TLS Fingerprints

How is the smarthost fingerprints determined? Do they depends on only the smarthost, or client as well? I configured my gmail smarthost fingerprint a while back in my old Ubuntu, and it worked well. ...
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Difference between SMTPd and SMTP

Hi can someone tell me what is the difference between the SMTPd and SMTP ?? i found that smtp is Postfix SMTP client and smtpd is Postfix SMTP server is this real ??? I found other information : ...
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How do I get mdadm to send its emails via msmtp?

I recently upgraded one of my systems to Debian Buster, and now I cannot get mdadm to send out its email messages. Previously I had ssmtp configured, and it worked just great, but it is no longer ...
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local msmtp and ovh hosting

I have my personal email hosted on OVH (personal hosting plan) and I'm not able to send mails using msmtp. Here's a typical session ignoring system configuration file /etc/msmtprc: File o directory ...
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getting errors trying to send email using msmtp

I'm trying to get email working with msmtp (I used to have fetchmail+procmail for incoming and msmtp for outgoing---trying to restore that), but I'm getting the same errors when sending to different ...
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how to send mail attachment from ubuntu 16.04 using Gmail service?

I have been using filezilla to import/export some data from server. How to send a file in a zip file via email in unix?
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NAS4Free email broken (Gmail)

I have a NAS4Free machine which used to be able to automatically send me emails, like when the system booted, the UPS failed, etc. That feature hasn't been working for me since sometime in the version ...
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Why does mutt send the content-disposition:inline at the top?

My header from mutt and msmtp setup looks like the following From [email protected] Fri Dec 10 12:10:20 2010 Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 12:10:20 -0500 From: Name Name <[email protected]> To: {...
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Mutt and msmtp interoperability

I am working on configuring /mutt/ to send mail via /msmtp/. Strangely, if I user /msmtp/ from shell, all okay, that means, that .msmtprc is correct. However, mail sent with mutt do not come. I have ...
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How can I use fetchmail (or another email grabber) with OSX keychain for authentication?

Many fetchmail tutorials I've read say putting your email account password clear-text in a config file is safe. However, I prefer security through layers [***silly example:* if my terminal is up and ...
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Is it possible to configure dkim signing outgoing emails with msmtp?

Is it possible just install opendkim, generate keys, and specify some options for msmtp to automatically send dkim-signed email? My server (Ubuntu 20.04) uses msmtp-mta with following config. defaults ...
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