Chapter 9. Providing Mail Services
In this chapter, we will cover:
- Enabling a domain-wide Mail Transport Agent (MTA) and testing your SMTP configuration with Telnet
- Building a local POP3/SMTP server with Postfix and Dovecot
- Closing the open relay, enabling SMTP authentication and dealing with Spam by configuring SASL, and enabling Postfix header and body checks
- Using Postfix and Dovecot to serve e-mail across virtual domains
Introduction
Providing mail services contains a series of recipes that provides an introduction to build your very own CentOS based mail server solution. This guide is suitable for any local network and can be used as a starting point for taking your mail server online. However, unlike previous sections of this book, it is recommended ...
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