108.3 Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) basics

108.3 Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) basics

Reference to LPI objectives

LPIC-1 version 5.0, Exam 102, Objective 108.3

Weight

3

Key knowledge areas

  • Create e-mail aliases.

  • Configure e-mail forwarding.

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

Partial list of the used files, terms and utilities

  • ~/.forward

  • sendmail emulation layer commands

  • newaliases

  • mail

  • mailq

  • postfix

  • sendmail

  • exim

Linux Professional Insitute Inc. All rights reserved. Visit the Learning Materials website: https://learning.lpi.org
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.