Linux Administration/System Services/Mail Transfer Agent

This lesson covers the mail transfer agent.

Objectives and Skills
Objectives and skills for the mail transfer agent portion of Linux+ certification include:
 * Mail transfer agent (MTA) basics
 * Create email aliases
 * Configure email forwarding
 * Knowledge of commonly available MTA programs (postfix, sendmail, qmail, 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
 * qmail

Activities

 * 1) Complete the tutorial IBM: Learn Linux, 101: Mail transfer agent (MTA) basics