So guys you are confusing me.

What I would like to do is have email send to my outside of the network email address so I can remotely monitor administrative things on the server such as errors with backups or log files.

Shall I just setup postfix or sendmail to send mail outgoing but not receive mail? Or use mailx which I'm not familiar with?

See if you already have postfix on the system (you could just use "find / -type f -name postfix". It should return an executable in /usr/sbin or similar if it's installed. If so, just fire it up (can't recall how to start services in Ubuntu -, maybe /etc/init.d/postfix start"?). It probably works at a basic level out of the box.

Otherwise, install with apt or apt-get.

sorry for the confusion.

I use mailx to verify local delivery first. it's a good place to start. then try setting up the mta for remote delivery (which can be trickier, like when dealing with your ISP).

Ok, guys you are confusing me.

What I really want to do is receive email to an outside the network address to give me admin monitoring of things like errors on the backups or log file tracking.

Should I just use postfix or sendmail & set it up to send mail and not receive incoming messages? Or maybe use mailx which I'm not familiar with.

Yes, it is Ubuntu 8.04 LTS.

Sorry for the last post I mistakenly sent it again.

So I'm going to look into postfix.

Thanks for the help