Setup outgoing mail

This might seem a bit simple but I am not sure how to setup the outgoing mail relay on the mail server. I have all the incoming mail working fine but how do I configure the the outgoing mail and what should I put in the mail client?

Outgoing mail can be trivial, or problematic depending on your network.
By default the mail server will try to deliver all outgoing mail to the destination mail server, so all you need to do is set your mail client to use your mail server or SMTP and you're done - the mail client will send the message to the server, the server will deliver it to the destination domain.
It gets tricky though if you don't have either a static IP address, or control over reverse DNS.
If you're on a dynamic IP address you'll find that many remote mail servers will reject your mail because dynamic IP addresses are a common source of spam. The same applies if you don't have the correct reverse DNS - if your server identifies itself as 'mail.yourdomain.com' but a reverse DNS lookup on its IP address returns 'some.dsl.ip.yourisp.com' then your mail is likely to get rejected for the same reason.
In the latter cases it may be better to relay the mail through your ISP's mail server. This adds an additional hop to the message, but increases its chance of getting delivered.
So, the answer to your question about outgoing mail is either nothing, or relay through your ISP, depending on your network.

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