New answers tagged sendmail
6
You've asked a pretty broad question—explaining all of it in detail would take many pages. In brief:
There are several programs involved in sending mail on a Linux/Unix machine. There are many to choose from for each role:
Mail User Agent (MUA). This is what you read and compose mail with. It's the user interface to the system. Examples: mutt, ...
2
Is there some type of email framework already built in?
Yes. There are multiple options for most distros. You can use MTA's such as Postfix and Sendmail on most of the larger distros such as Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, etc. It really comes down to what your preference is.
Do I need a MTA or a MUA?
Depends. Most of the Linux distros do come ...
0
None whatsoever... all the mail related packages/functionality can be left out. All distributions I know offer a variety of MTAs, MUAs, handlers for mail stores (POP, IMAP servers), spam filters/measures, ...
0
You don't mention your sendmail version. Sendmail broke... I'm sorry, changed the way mailertable works, with version 8.14. I've had all my mail hubs break when upgrading to RHEL6 with sendmail-8.14. I'm still trying to understand exactly what they change is, and why they changed it. But I've picked up two tips so far:
1) If you want to use ...
Top 50 recent answers are included
