108.3 – Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) basics

Weight

3

Description

Candidates should be aware of the commonly available MTA programs and be able to perform basic forward and alias configuration on a client host. Other configuration files are not covered.

Key Knowledge Areas

• Create e-mail aliases.

• Configure e-mail forwarding.

• Knowledge of commonly available MTA programs (postfix, sendmail, exim) (no configuration).

Files, Terms, and Utilities

• ~/.forward

• sendmail emulation layer commands

• newaliases

• mail

• mailq

• postfix

• sendmail

• exim