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Linux System Engineer: Mail Systems Using Postfix

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Overview

Learn how to set up email with Postfix, the mail transport agent for Linux, and study for Postfix-related questions from the RHCE certification exam.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Mail systems using Postfix
  • What you will need
  • Virtual machine configuration
  • Lab setup
  • Set hostnames
1. Email Systems and Terminology
  • About email
  • How email works
  • Mail agents
2. Introducing Postfix
  • Install Postfix
  • Postfix services
  • Postfix commands
  • Postfix logging
  • Postfix and Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux)
3. Postfix Configuration Files
  • The access file
  • The canonical file
  • The generic file
  • The relocated file
  • The transport file
  • The virtual file
  • The aliases file
  • The master file
  • The main configuration file
4. Configure Postfix
  • Configure a local mail server
  • Send email from a remote client
  • Create a null-client mail relay
  • Create a mail gateway
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Grant McWilliams

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