The Linux Electronic Mail HOWTO

Guylhem Aznar <guylhem at oeil.qc.ca>

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 USENET
• 2.2 Mailing Lists
• 2.3 Other documents from LDP
• 2.4 Books

3. Requirements

• 3.1 Hardware
• 3.2 Software

4. Qmail v1.03

• 4.1 Getting qmail
• 4.2 Uncompressing sources
• 4.3 Preparing compilation
• 4.4 Configuring qmail
• 4.5 Testing qmail
• 4.6 Removing your other MTA
• 4.7 That's all, folks !

5. Smail v3.1

• 5.1 Configuring smail
• 5.2 "config" file
• 5.3 "directors" file
• 5.4 "fidopaths" file
• 5.5 "routers" file
• 5.6 "transports" file
• 5.7 "maps/" directory
• 5.8 Other good examples
• 5.9 Restarting inetd
• 5.10 Smail with smtp

6. OUTDATED SECTION : Sendmail+IDA

• 6.1 Source installation
• 6.2 The sendmail.m4 file
• 6.3 Defining a local mailer
• 6.4 The sendmail+IDA dbm tables
• 6.5 So which entries are really required?
• 6.6 Sendmail 8.x
• 6.7 A sample 8.7.x mc file
• 6.8 Sendmail v8 tidbits
• 6.9 Local Delivery Agents

7. POP mail

• 7.1 History
• 7.2 Getting mail
• 7.3 Sending mail
• 7.4 Reading mail
• 7.5 Testing
• 7.6 Using

8. Mail "user agents"

• 8.1 Mutt
• 8.2 Elm
• 8.3 Mailx
• 8.4 Other user agents

9. Acknowledgements