Email Administration
In this day of instantaneous communication, email servers have become a necessity not only in the business world, but also for personal computer systems. Most Linux systems install some type of mail system by default, either a desktop client program that allows users to connect to a remote email server or an internal email server for handling email onsite.
This section describes how Linux handles email and the different options available to you for working with email in a Linux environment.
Describing Linux Email Architecture
In the early days of email, it was standard to create a single monolithic program that handled all aspects of email:
Sending messages to users on remote systems
Receiving messages from remote systems ...
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