Networking System Administration

Mail is held n a single file: /vary/mail/user's Steps to run mail server using seminal: 1 .

Required for inbound mail: The mail server must be identified by the DNS as the mail server in order to receive mail. See the Yowling web tutorial on configuring DNS. 2. Let/mail/local-host-names (Required) (Red Hat 7. 1 - Fedora Core 3) 'etc/ seminal. OCW (Red Hat 6.

X) ESMTP In Linux The procedure to configure email options for ESMTP on the UNIX system and Linux varies depending on whether your environment has a single Rational Clearest Server or multiple servers. E the appropriate procedure for your environment. When you use ESMTP on the UNIX system and Linux, all email notification messages that Rational Clearest Web sends have the From address of the user who set up the email rules and a Reply To address that corresponds to the ESMTP Reply To address specified on the E-Mail Options tab of the Site Administration page Procedure: 1 . Log on to the Rational Clearest Web client by using an account with the Super User privilege.

2. Configure the E-mail Options tab of the Site Administration page: a.In the Sending E-mail Status list, select Active or Inactive, as appropriate. B.

In the Mall Transport Type list, select ESMTP. C. In the ESMTP Host field, enter the name of your ESMTP server. D. In the ESMTP Reply To field, enter the address of a dedicated email account that Rational Clearest Web can use as the Reply To address in notification messages. Use the following format: SomeGenericReturnAddress@MyDomain.

Dovecot Dovecot is a Mail Delivery Agent, written with security primarily in mind. It supports the major mailbox formats: mobs or Mailer.This section explain how to set it up as an map or poop server. To configure dovecot, you can edit the file /etc/dovecot/ dovecot. Cons. You can choose the protocol you use.

It could be poop, poops (poop secure), lamp and lamps (Map secure). A description of these protocols Is beyond the scope of this guide. For further Information, refer to the Wisped articles on POOP and MAP. MAPS and POOPS are more secure that the simple MAP and POOP amend the following line in the file /etc/dovecot/dovecot. Cons: Email Servers in Linux Internet mail is broken down into three basic parts: .

MAT or Mail Transfer Agents - seminal, small, etc - Links/leno server configuration * Seminal email server configuration * Postfix email 2. Mail Retrieval Software - poop, map, etc - Links/leno 3. Mail User Agent (MUM): E-Mail client - Netscape, MUTE, etc - Links/leno Internet mail is sent from the email client to the email server which routes it to the intended destination which will also be an email server. The protocol by which the email servers communicate is called ESMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) and the email server software is known as the MAT or Mail Transfer Agent.

This page lists the popular MAT email server programs used, as well as supporting programs such as email list servers and spam filters. Also listed are the Ref's (Request For Comments) on which the internet email standards are currently or eventually based. Fedora 15 email server Email was born in the asses. The mailbox was a file in a user's home directory that was readable only by that user. Primitive mail applications appended new text messages to the bottom of the file, making the user wade through the constantly growing file to find any particular message.

This system was only capable of sending usages to users on the same system. The first network transfer of an electronic mail message file took place in 1971 when a computer engineer named Ray Tomlinson sent a test message between two machines via ARPANET?the precursor to the Internet. Communication via email soon became very popular, comprising 75 percent of Repast's traffic in less than two years. Today, email systems based on standardized network protocols have evolved into some of the most widely used services on the Internet. Fedora offers many advanced applications to serve and access email.