The Linux Electronic Mail HOWTO The Linux Electronic Mail HOWTO Guylhem Aznar <guylhem at oeil.qc.ca>v2.0, January 1998This document describes the setup, care and feeding of Electronic Mail (e-mail) under Linux. You need to read this if you plan to communicate locally or to remote sites via electronic mail. You probably do *not* need to read this document if don't exchange electronic mail with other users on your system or with other sites.1. Introduction, copyright and standard disclaimer1.1 Email and spamming1.2 Goals1.3 New versions1.4 Feedback1.5 Copyright1.6 Limited warranty2. Other sources of information2.1 USENET2.2 Mailing Lists2.3 Other documents from LDP2.4 Books3. Requirements3.1 Hardware3.2 Software4. Qmail v1.034.1 Getting qmail4.2 Uncompressing sources4.3 Preparing compilation4.4 Configuring qmail4.5 Testing qmail4.6 Removing your other MTA4.7 That's all, folks !5. Smail v3.15.1 Configuring smail5.2 "config" file5.3 "directors" file5.4 "fidopaths" file5.5 "routers" file5.6 "transports" file5.7 "maps/" directory5.8 Other good examples5.9 Restarting inetd5.10 Smail with smtp6. OUTDATED SECTION : Sendmail+IDA6.1 Source installation6.2 The sendmail.m4 file6.3 Defining a local mailer6.4 The sendmail+IDA dbm tables6.5 So which entries are really required?6.6 Sendmail 8.x6.7 A sample 8.7.x mc file6.8 Sendmail v8 tidbits6.9 Local Delivery Agents7. POP mail7.1 History7.2 Getting mail7.3 Sending mail7.4 Reading mail7.5 Testing7.6 Using8. Mail "user agents"8.1 Mutt8.2 Elm8.3 Mailx8.4 Other user agents9. Acknowledgements W