MTA: mail I

MTA: mail I



Managing an MTA

In most modern organizations, e-mail has become the backbone of
communications. If you have any doubt, just visit any organization
where the mail server has gone down. All productive work grinds to a
halt.


Because e-mail has become such an integral component of most networks,
you need to know how to manage a mail server. In addition, many Linux
services, such as cron, rely on a local mail server to send messages
to local users. Accordingly, you need to be familiar with managing a
Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) on Linux systems for your Linux+/LPIC-1
exam. In this part of this chap- ter, we’ll look at the following topics:



• How e-mail works
• Using MTA management commands on Linux




Let’s begin by discussing how e-mail works.









LX0-104 Exam Objectives (P)