Seminar: Internet Mail Basics & Unix Mail Services with qmail

[Warren Togami]

Internet Mail Basics & Unix Mail Services with qmail
Date: Saturday, August 25th, 2001
Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
No Food

Location: University of Hawaii ICS Department
3rd floor of the POST Building
Marked "Pacific Ocean Sci Tech [D4]" on this map
http://www.hawaii.edu/campusmap


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At this seminar we will be covering the technical basics of how mail services work on the Internet, discussing the protocols involved, DNS MX, MTA, MUA, POP3, IMAP4, web based e-mail and an overview of several of the common Unix mail server software packages.  

Ho'ala Greevy will be demonstrating installation and configuration of the high performance, secure qmail Unix e-mail server.  Ho'ala is a former engineer of Critical Path, where he maintained millions of mail boxes using the qmail mail transport agent.

Topics to be discussed:

Internet Mail Basics - How does it work?

  a.. Mail Transport - MTA, SMTP, QMTP 
  b.. DNS MX, MUA, POP3, IMAP4 Web Based E-mail 
  c.. Unix E-mail Server Software - Sendmail, Postfix, Exim, qmail 
  d.. Other E-mail Server Software  
Building a Unix Mail Server with qmail

  a.. qmail Installation 
  b.. Configuration 
  c.. mbox vs Maildir mail storage 
  d.. POP3, IMAP4, and Web Mail Servers 
  e.. Server Side Spam Filtering 
  f.. Security Considerations 
Please RSVP to warren at togami.com with subject "LINUX SEMINAR 7".

Warren Togami
warren at togami.com
Mid-Pacific Linux User's Group
http://www.mplug.org
University of Hawaii ICS Club
http://www2.ics.hawaii.edu/~icsclub

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