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Red Hat Linux 6: Visual QuickPro Guide
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Red Hat Linux 6: Visual QuickPro Guide

by Harold Davis
August 1999
Intermediate to advanced
328 pages
8h 58m
English
Peachpit Press
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Serving Mail

You are probably used to composing email in a program such as Eudora, Netscape Messenger, or Outlook. These programs are mail clients—for them to work, mail must be served to them by a server program running on the network known generically as a mail transport agent (MTA).

Sendmail is the most widely used Unix MTA. In fact, it is probably the most widely used MTA on any platform. The sendmail program comes bundled with Red Hat Linux 6. If you chose to install the server components when you installed Red Hat Linux 6, it is probably already on your system. Otherwise, you install it from the CD using GnoRPM, as explained in Chapters 2 and 3.

This section shows you how to configure sendmail's basic options (there is not much to it). ...

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