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Step-by-Step Guide to Configuring Email on Linux Using Postfix

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Hey Folks✌️ welcome to another post, Here we discuss using Postfix to send email by command line.

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Introduction:

Postfix is a popular and widely used open-source mail transfer agent (MTA) software. An MTA is responsible for routing and delivering email messages within a computer network, whether that network is the Internet or an internal network within an organization

Requirements:

1. Email credentials (Microsoft 365/Gmail/Outlook)
2. Linux Machine

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Step 1 — Install required packages:

# For Redhat based 
 sudo yum install postfix cyrus-sasl-plain mailx -y

# For Debian Based
sudo apt install postfix cyrus-sasl-plain mailx -y

Step 2 — Configure Postfix