Summary
In this chapter you learned how to install, set up, configure, and test sendmail, ipop3d, and imapd, as well as to retrieve your mail using Netscape and fetchmail. The key things to remember about this process follow:
An MTA is a Mail Transfer Agent (which actually routes and delivers mail), and an MUA is a Mail User Agent (which is what the user uses to access mail after it has been delivered). sendmail is an MTA only.
The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is the actual protocol used to transfer mail. sendmail is a program that uses this protocol to communicate with other mail servers. Other mail servers don't need to run sendmail, but they do need to communicate via SMTP.
sendmail does not deliver mail once it has reached the destination ...
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