Currently this page contains only a few "new" resources I've found. An older list of resources is on another page and a Word document in the process of being "refactored".

See also:

• AboutThesePages
• PostfixResources
• ProcmailResources
• QmailResources

Comparison of MTAs

• Cameron Laird's personal notes on mail transfer agents -- thanks Cameron! good start (maybe more than that, but certainly a good start) -- I hope this doesn't disappear, I am copying some links in the following just in case.
• Dave Sill comparing qmail, postfix, and exim -- from above.

Windows Email Servers

• WinSMTP Found from http://web66.coled.umn.edu/Cookbook/Win95/Contents.html, and instructions for installation at http://web66.coled.umn.edu/Cookbook/Win95/Mail/Mail.html. (Link to the Classroom Internet Server Cookbook provided by Dann Washko.)

Sendmail stuff

I don't have any intention of learning sendmail, but some sendmail resources might be useful to a better understanding of email servers in general:

• Issue 96: Paranoid Penguin: Hardening Sendmail, Posted on Monday, April 01, 2002 by Mick Bauer

Setting Up an Email Server

• Mandrake User: DocSection: Connectivity: Mail The Unix Way; How to install a fully automatated mail-system on your Linux box. -- looks like one of the better resources I've found. Disappointing it took me this long to find it -- next time I get busy on an email server I'll try these instructions.
• (rhk) Mail; A.P.Lawrence / PCUNIX -- should be helpful
• (rhk) Postfix+Courier-IMAP+MySQL for multiple domains HOWTO; Kirby Menzel and Lucas Peet; viewed 23 Apr 2003 — skimmed the beginning (didn't read) but seems a little more recent than my stuff and has a lot of details — if it's not too focused on the multiple domains it might be quite useful — I should read this before I set up another email server (or revise all the junk on WikiLearn)

Command Line Email

• [[http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2003/05/22/email_history.html?page=2]Command-Line Email: Tricks of the Trade]]:
  • Telnetting into the SMTP and POP servers
  • Sending Standard Output as an Email Message
  • Encoding Binaries to ASCII (man uuencode)
  • Sending a Large File as a Series of Smaller Ones (man shar)

Other Stuff

Looks like the qmail site (http://www.qmail.org) has some good resources for email in general, including man pages that explain various aspects of email, for example, http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/mbox.html which covers the mbox file format.

• More qmail stuff -- http://cr.yp.to/mail.html, and see EmailQmail.
• More qmail stuff -- Internet mail infrastructure, especially Moving a message closer to a remote recipient , but really, all of them are very helpful.
• SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol -- more qmail stuff
• For more qmail stuff (perhaps more focused on setting up qmail), see QmailResources

Contributors

• RandyKramer - 18 Feb 2002
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