Disable all Mail but outgoing / use external Mailserver

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I don’t like to have the Mail-Server open to use for the virtualserver-instances (webspaces) from virtualmin.
But I need to send mails via PHP to the internet.

If I check running processes, I see that dovecot runs:

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Two questions here:

  1. How could I completely disable the mail-functionality for users, but keep the outgoing mails which I do need for php-scripts? (Even would be awesome to be able to hide those menues in the virtualmin menu)
    I know about only to stop dovecot service. But will this make trouble with virtualmin in any way?
  2. As another option: How could I configure virtualmin to use an external Mail-Server (and also an external webmail-interface?
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