Working with Email - 1

CompTIA Linux+ Domain:

Domain 2.0: Systems Operations and Maintenance

CompTIA Linux+ Objective:

Objective 2.5: Summarize and explain server roles

Overview

This lab provides guidance on performing Lab 9: Working with Email of the Linux+. By performing this lab, students will learn how to manage the Postfix mail service.

OUTCOMES:
 

In this lab, you will learn to:

  1. View Postfix files.
  2. Start and stop Postfix services.
Courses

Key terms and descriptions

Mail Transfer Agent
Message Transfer Agent (MTA) or mail relay is a service that transfer email messages from one server to another via the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) protocol.
Message User Agent
Message User Agent (MUA), also known as an email client by system administrators, composes, sends, and receives email to an MTA using SMTP (send) and Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3)/ Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) (receive).
Message User Agent
Message Delivery Agent (MDA) manages mailboxes and the communicates to the MUA or email client via POP3/IMAP protocols.