Red Hat® Linux® 7 Unleashed

Chapter 10. SMTP and Protocols

In This Chapter

• A Brief History of Internet Email Standards

• SMTP and sendmail

• POP

• IMAP

• Mail Retrieval

This chapter begins with some brief background on Internet email, including a discussion about the SMTP protocol. Other topics include setting up sendmail on Linux, including some basic configuration options; the Washington University IMAP/POP package, which implements POP3 and IMAP4 support for Linux; and methods to retrieve your mail messages using the POP3 and IMAP protocols.