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Linux System Administration
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Linux System Administration

by Tom Adelstein, Bill Lubanovic
March 2007
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
304 pages
11h 12m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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For your mail server to receive mail, you’ll need to set up the incoming server with
DNS, as discussed in Chapter 3. As a brief reminder, you’ll use
MX records to do this.
A typical
MX record looks like this:
MX 10 server1.centralsoft.org.
This record says that email addressed to the domain centralsoft.org should be deliv-
ered to server1.centralsoft.org (which is the mail server for the domain).
What’s Next
At this point, you’ve installed and configured Postfix and an IMAP and POP3 ser-
vice. You have the essential components of a mail system you can use in a corporate
environment.
If this is your first exposure to mail, you may now understand why enterprises spend
large amounts of money to buy packaged systems licensed on a per-seat basis. You
may also understand why they hire a dozen or more system administrators to man-
age their email communication infrastructures. This area requires special expertise.
After you’ve mastered the information in this book, you may want to study more
components of advanced email systems. You should understand how to install and
configure a scalable and secure mail server and how much effort is required to gain
expertise in this area. You will also need an understanding of directory services such
as OpenLDAP or Fedora Directory Server to validate large numbers of users and pro-
vide a listing of mail users in your enterprise.
The next chapter discusses ...
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