Linux Administration/System Services/Mail Transfer Agent

This lesson covers the mail transfer agent.

Objectives and Skills

Objectives and skills for the mail transfer agent portion of Linux+ certification include:

• Mail transfer agent (MTA) basics
  • Create email aliases
  • Configure email forwarding
  • Knowledge of commonly available MTA programs (postfix, sendmail, qmail, exim) (no configuration)
  • The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
    • ~/.forward
    • sendmail emulation layer commands
    • newaliases
    • mail
    • mailq
    • postfix
    • sendmail
    • exim
    • qmail

Activities

1. Complete the tutorial IBM: Learn Linux, 101: Mail transfer agent (MTA) basics

See also

• mail (command)

References

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