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# The Linux Electronic Mail Administrator HOWTO

## Guylhem Aznar `<guylhem at metalab.unc.edu>`

v3.2, January 2000

This document describes the setup, care and feeding of Electronic Mail (e-mail) under Linux. It is primarily intended for administrators, rather than users. (See the Mail-User's-HOWTO for information on user issues and user agents.) You need to read this if you plan to communicate locally or to remote sites via electronic mail. You probably do *not* need to read this document if don't exchange electronic mail with other users on your system or with other sites.

## 1. Introduction, copyright and standard disclaimer

- 1.1 Email and spamming
- 1.2 Goals
- 1.3 New versions
- 1.4 Feedback
- 1.5 Copyright
- 1.6 Limited warranty

## 2. Other sources of information

- 2.1 Mail User's HOWTO
- 2.2 USENET
- 2.3 Mailing Lists
- 2.4 Other documents from LDP
- 2.5 Books

## 3. How Electronic Mail Works

- 3.1 Mail between full-time Internet machines
- 3.2 Notifiers
- 3.3 Mail to part-time Internet machines
- 3.4 Remote mail and remote-mail protocols
- 3.5 Mailbox formats

## 4. Requirements

- 4.1 Hardware

## 5. Choosing a Mail Transport Agent

- 5.1 sendmail
- 5.2 smail v3.2
- 5.3 qmail
- 5.4 exim

## 6. Installing Transport Software

- 6.1 Qmail v1.03
- 6.2 Smail v3.1
- 6.3 OUTDATED SECTION: Sendmail+IDA
- 6.4 Sendmail 8.x
- 6.5 Local Delivery Agents

## 7. User Agent Administration

- 7.1 Mutt
- 7.2 Elm
- 7.3 Mailx

## 8. Handling remote mail

- 8.1 History
- 8.2 Getting mail
- 8.3 Sending mail
- 8.4 Reading mail
- 8.5 Testing
- 8.6 Using

## 9. Acknowledgements

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