November 2009
Beginner
376 pages
8h 49m
English
In this chapter, we started by discussing why you should even consider hosting your own e-mail server. Then, we looked at some questions that need to be answered before starting work with the server—the kind of network connection, computer power and disk space requirements that are expected.
To manage an e-mail server successfully, an understanding of the network communication protocols used is important. We gave an overview of POP and IMAP, and delved more deeply into the most important of them all, SMTP.
Finally, we looked at the vital role that the DNS plays in routing messages to the correct server or a backup server if one is available.
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