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1. Sendmail

Sendmail, now known as proofpoint (after Proofpoint, Inc acquired Sendmail, Inc), is by far the most popular and oldest MTA on the Linux server platform. Sendmail has a lot of limitations compared to some current MTAs. Because of its complex configuration steps and requirements, and weak security mechanisms, many new MTA began to replace Sendmail.

Sendmail installation

# check whether the software is installed

Rpm-qa | egrep "sendmail | dovecot | cyrus"

# install mail server

Yum-y install sendmail sendmail-cf

# install pop3/imap service

Yum-y install dovecot

# install user authentication software

Yum-y install cyrus-sasl cryus-sasl-md5 cryus-sasl-plain cyrus-sasl-lib2. Postfix

Postfix is a cross-platform, popular MTA that was developed and designed by Wietse Zweitze Venema in the IBM research department for the company's mail server.

It was developed primarily to replace the popular public Sendmail MTA. Postfix runs on Linux,Mac OSX,Solaris and several other Unix-like operating systems.

It borrows a lot of Sendmail's external properties, but it has a completely different internal operation. In addition, it has the advantage of a functional module that facilitates configuration and security mechanisms, and has the following main features:

Spam control supports multiple protocols, Supports multiple protocols supports databases, supports Mailbox, supports address operations, and refers to official documents for more functions.

Postfix installation

Rpm-qa | egrep "postfix | mailx" yum-y install mailx postfixservice postfix start & & chkconfig postfix on3. Exim

* Exim* is a free MTA developed for Unix-like operating systems, such as Linux, Mac OSX,Solaris and other operating systems. Exim provides a lot of flexibility for mail routing on the network, including good mechanisms and settings for accepting mail monitoring.

Its remarkable features include, but are not limited to:

Does not support protocols supported by POP and IMAP protocols, such as RFC2821 SMTP and RFC2033 LMTP email transmission configuration, which includes access control lists, content scanning, encryption, routing control excellent documents it has utilities, such as Lemonade is a variety of SMTP and IMAP extensions

Exim installation

# install the latest epel source

Rpm-ivh http://mirrors.aliyun.com/epel/epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm

# install exim

Yum-y install exim-mysql mailxservice posftix stop & & chkconfig postfix offchkconfig exim on & & service exim start

# Test email

Echo "this is test from exim" | mial-s "exim" tailf / var/log/exim/mainlog4. Qmail

* Qmail* is another free, open source, modern Linux MTA. Compared with other MTA, it is simple, reliable, and efficient, thus providing a wide range of security features, secure MTA packages.

It is small but feature-rich, and some features include:

Run on a variety of Unix operating systems, such as FreeBSD, Solaris, Mac OSX plus, etc. More simple and quick installation automatically configure each host address, the separation between files and programs clearly and fully support address groups let each user manage their own mailing list support a simple way to build mailing list support VERPs support automatically prevent mailing list circulation support ezmlm mailing list manager

# Qmail installation

Wget http://infobase.ibase.com.hk/qmail/netqmail-1.06.tar.gz-p / usr/local/srctar xpf netqmail-1.06.tar.gz & & cd netqmail-1.06 &. / collate.shmake setup check &. / config5. Mutt Command Line Mail client

Mutt is a small but powerful email client based on a Unix-like operating system.

As a text-based email client, it has some exciting features, including:

Message subject support IMAP and POP3 protocols support multiple mailbox formats, such as MBOX,MH,Maildir,MMDF support delivery status multiple mail tags support PGP/MIME (RFC2015) various functions to support mailing lists, including full control of email headers during list reply writing easy active community development 6. Alpine

Alpine is a fast and easy-to-use terminal-based email client of Linux. It is based on Pine mail system. It is very suitable for beginners and power users, who can easily learn how to use it with context-sensitive help.

Importantly, it can be highly customized through the Alpine command.

# Alpine installation

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