Serving Mail with Postfix, Dovecot

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Postfix
Postfixadmin
Dovecot
Author and Copyright

Introduction

[Revised using OpenBSD 4.0]

E-Mail services on the Internet exchange messages through a clients/servers mechanism where the client sends and retrieves mail from servers who store these messages for future forwarding (store and forward.) Three components of e-mail (as noted above) is the service for (a) clients to receive their mail (b) servers to receive mail from clients 'store', and (c) servers to 'forward' stored mail.

The OpenBSD base install provides a functioning Mail Server from the http://www.sendmail.org project and our documentation is at sendmail.htm.

Postfix

postfix.htm

Postfixadmin

postfixadmin.htm

Dovecot

dovecot.htm

Author and Copyright

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Serving Up Mail - sendmail, pop, imap OpenBSD