Linux Based Mail Server

Editor's Notes

• #2: Hello, I am Gabor and this is my first presentation about a typical linux based mail server. It is a very wide range subject, becouse I have only 10 minutes that’s why I will be short.
• #3: On the first slide you can see basic information about me. My name is Gabor Bernics, I am twentynine years old, I work as IT Specialist at Penta Unió Ltd. I have been liking Linux since 2002, I prefer Debian from 3.0 („Woody”) I Like hungarian wine, Túró Rudi and I like playing futsal.
• #4: First question: Why choose this topic? Because email is very current, it’s cheap (very cheapper than normal mail), people can read and write immediatly and can use anywhere and anytime. E-mail is part of my life too: I manage e-mail servers and desktop clients, contact with clients via email, I make direct marketing compaign, et cetra. People send 20 billion email per day, it’s a very big number..but spams give up to 90 percent of daily email traffic. The fight for spams is a seperate industry nowday.
• #5: On the fird slide you see a typical route of an email: User send an email by Mail User Agent across smtp to our provider, provider give the mail to the MTA server of recipient. MUA of recipient get the mail from IMAP or POP 3.
• #6: On these slide you show three concept with 3M: The task of MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) is a transfer message from one to another computer. These is a client – server architecture, SMTP server can works both. Typical MTAs on Linux are Postfix, Exim and Sendmail The task of MDA (Mail or Local Delivery Agent) is deliver mails to user user mailbox. Typical MDAs on Linux are Procmail, Postfix-Virtual delivery agent and Dovecot LDA MUA is Mail User Agent, there are clients for access user’s email Typical MUA are Thunderbird, Outlook, but users prefer web basedmail clients nowday – it’s flexible, not depend the place or OS. The current webmail providers are gmail, hotmail, yahoomail.