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UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook, 5th Edition
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UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook, 5th Edition

by Trent R. Hein, Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Ben Whaley, Dan Mackin
August 2017
Intermediate to advanced
1232 pages
39h 57m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Electronic Mail

Decades ago, cooking a chicken dinner involved not just frying the chicken, but selecting a tender young chicken out of the coop, terminating it with a kill signal, plucking the feathers, etc. Today, most of us just buy a package of chicken at the grocery store or butcher shop and skip the mess.

Email has evolved in a similar way. Ages ago, it was common for organizations to hand-craft their email infrastructure, sometimes to the point of predetermining exact mail routing. Today, many organizations use packaged, cloud-hosted email services such as Google Gmail or Microsoft Office 365.

Even if your email system ...

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