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MailServer
Present guide is targeted for small mailserver, serving domain with few clients.
Components
Normally mailserver will consist of several components:
- MTA, message transport agent. This is the core of the mailserver, taking mail from clients and relaying/delivering towards destination host.
- Sendmail
- Postfix
- Qmail
- MDA, message delivery agent, responsible for placing arrived mail into proper mailbox, according to rules.
- Procmail
- MUA mail user agent, end user's interface for working with mailbox, reading and composing, submitting mail to MTA
- kmail
- evolution
- Self:pine
- Spam tools, identifying spam
- Spamassassin
- Access protocols: IMAP, POP, Webmail
- IMAP Dovecot ;
- Webmail Squirrelmail
- email security
- selfsigned OpenSSL certificates
If you are behind the Self:NAT enabled Self:router the proper Self:portforwarding is also needed
