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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
• mail
• 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