lk/system/e-mail.md
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Terminology

|MTA | Mail transfer agent | |POP3| Post Office Protocol 3 | |SMTP| Simple Mail Transfer Protocol| |IMAP| Internet Message Access Protocol|

There are a number of Linux e-mail agents - postfix, sendmail, exim (insecure) and qmail (dead).

Programs

sudo apt-get install postfix mailutils

This will register your domain in the /etc/postfix/main.cf file.

Internal Mail

sendmail -t roach-1

Write a message and stop composition with Ctrl+D.

The mail is kept in /var/mail/ and you can read it with:

mail

Aliases

Aliases are groups of mail recipients. The lists are kept under /etc/aliases.

crew: matthew@gmail.com,ghost,danial@yahoo.com

Update the list of aliases from this with:

sudo newaliases

Then you can:

sendmail -t crew

... and send to the whole crew.

View pending e-mails using:

mailq