FreeBSD6 Unleashed

Chapter 25. Configuring Email Services

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Introduction to SMTP

• Mail Transfer Agents (MTAs) and Mail User Agents (MUAs)

• Configuring Basic Email Services with Sendmail

• Understanding Relaying

• Introduction to POP3

• Configuring a POP3 Server with Qpopper

• Configuring an IMAP Server with IMAP-UW

• Email for Standalone Workstations

• Filtering Junk Mail with Procmail and SpamAssassin

• A Look at Some Sendmail Replacements

What’s the Internet without email? Probably not even the Web, with its flashy graphics and its commercial opportunities, has quite the usefulness and cachet of the Internet’s oldest application, electronic mail. Every UNIX server in the world has email capabilities built into it—not just the capability for users to send and receive mail, ...