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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Essentials

By : Neil Smyth
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Book Image

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Essentials

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By: Neil Smyth

Overview of this book

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is one of the most secure and dependable operating systems available. For this reason, the ambitious system or network engineer will find a working knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise 8 to be an invaluable advantage in their respective fields. This book, now updated for RHEL 8.1, begins with a history of Red Enterprise Linux and its installation. You will be virtually perform remote system administration tasks with cockpit web interface and write shell scripts to maintain server-based systems without desktop installation. Then, you will set up a firewall system using a secure shell and enable remote access to Gnome desktop environment with virtual network computing (VNC). You’ll share files between the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8) and Windows System using Samba client and NFS. You will also run multiple guest operating systems using virtualization and Linux containers, and host websites using RHEL 8 by installing an Apache web server. Finally, you will create logical disks using logical volume management and implement swap space to maintain the performance of a RHEL 8 system. By the end of this book, you will be armed with the skills and knowledge to install the RHEL 8 operating system and use it expertly.
Table of Contents (32 chapters)
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Index

28.10 Sending Mail via an SMTP Relay Server

An alternative to configuring a mail server to handle outgoing email messages is to use an SMTP Relay service. As previously discussed, a number of services are available, most of which can be found by performing a web search for “SMTP Relay Service”. Most of these services will require you to verify your domain in some way and will provide MX records with which to update your DNS settings. You will also be provided with a username and password which need to be added to the postfix configuration. The remainder of this section makes the assumption that postfix is already installed on your system and that all of the initial steps required by your chosen SMTP Relay provider have been completed.

Begin by editing the /etc/postfix/main.cf file and configuring the myhostname parameter with your domain name:

myhostname = mydomain.com

Next, create a new file in /etc/postfix named sasl_passwd and add a line containing the mail...