LPI Linux Certification/Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) Basics
Detailed Objectives
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Description:
Candidates should be aware of the commonly available MTA programs and be able to perform basic forward and alias configuration on a client host. Other configuration files are not covered.
Key Knowledge Area(s):
- Create e-mail aliases.
- Configure e-mail forwarding.
- Knowledge of commonly available MTA programs (postfix, sendmail, exim) (no configuration).
The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
~/.forward
- sendmail emulation layer commands
newaliases
mail
mailq
postfix
sendmail
exim