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Qmail Quickstarter: Install, Set Up and Run your own Email Server

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Qmail Quickstarter: Install, Set Up and Run your own Email Server

Overview of this book

This book starts with setting up a qmail server and takes you through virtualization, filtering, and other advanced features like hosting multiple domains, mailing lists, and SSL Encryption. Finally, it discusses the log files and how to make qmail work faster. Qmail is a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent. It is designed for typical Internet-connected UNIX hosts. Qmail is the second most common SMTP server on the Internet, and has by far the fastest growth of any SMTP server. Qmail's straight-paper-path philosophy guarantees that a message, once accepted into the system, will never be lost. Qmail also optionally supports maildir, a new, super-reliable user mailbox format.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Summary


This chapter has explained both primary ways in which email exits qmail's queue and is delivered. All of the major facets of delivery were covered, including what happens when delivery fails, how delivery can be filtered with .qmail files, how users are defined, and how to control remote delivery. The next chapter will cover local delivery in greater detail, focusing on storage formats and popular methods of accessing email.