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<chapter id="mail">
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<sect1>
<title>Synopsis</title>
<indexterm><primary>email</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>electronic mail</primary></indexterm>
<para>Electronic Mail, better known as email, is one of the most
widely used forms of communication today. Millions of people use
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linkend="bibliography">System Administration</link> books. If you
plan on doing anything beyond setting up one mailhost for your
network, you need industrial strength help.</para>
<indexterm><primary>DNS</primary></indexterm>
<para>Some parts of email configuration are controlled in the Domain
Name System (DNS). If you are going to run your own DNS server, be
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<sect1 id="mail-using">
<title>Using Electronic Mail</title>
<indexterm><primary>POP</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>IMAP</primary></indexterm>
<para>There are five major parts involved in an email exchange. They
are: <link linkend="mail-mua">the user program</link>, <link
linkend="mail-mta">the server daemon</link>, <link
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<sect2 id="mail-mta">
<title>Mailhost Server Daemon</title>
<indexterm>
<primary>mail server daemon</primary>
<secondary>sendmail</secondary>
</indexterm>
<indexterm>
<primary>mail server daemon</primary>
<secondary>postfix</secondary>
</indexterm>
<indexterm>
<primary>mail server daemon</primary>
<secondary>qmail</secondary>
</indexterm>
<indexterm>
<primary>mail server daemon</primary>
<secondary>exim</secondary>
</indexterm>
<para>This is usually <application>sendmail</application> (by
default with FreeBSD) or one of the other mail server daemons such
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<sect2 id="mail-receive">
<title>Receiving Mail</title>
<indexterm>
<primary>email</primary>
<Secondary>receiving</secondary>
</indexterm>
<para>Receiving mail for your domain is done by the mail host. It
will collect mail sent to you and store it for reading or pickup.
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want to read mail directly on the mail host, then a POP or IMAP
server is not needed.</para>
<indexterm><primary>POP</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>IMAP</primary></indexterm>
<para>If you want to run a POP or IMAP server, there are two things
you need to do:</para>
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<sect2 id="mail-host">
<title>The Mail Host</title>
<indexterm><primary>mail host</primary></indexterm>
<para>The mail host is the name given to a server that is
responsible for delivering and receiving mail for your host, and
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<sect1 id="mail-trouble">
<title>Troubleshooting</title>
<indexterm>
<primary>email</primary>
<secondary>troubleshooting</secondary>
</indexterm>
<para>Here are some frequently asked questions and answers. These
have been migrated from the <ulink url="../FAQ/">FAQ</ulink>.</para>
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role="fqdn">mumble.bar.edu</hostid>, instead of just
<hostid>mumble</hostid>.</para>
<indexterm><primary>BIND</primary></indexterm>
<para>Traditionally, this was allowed by BSD BIND resolvers.
However the current version of <application>BIND</application>
that ships with FreeBSD no longer provides default abbreviations
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</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
<indexterm><primary>PPP</primary></indexterm>
<question>
<para>How can I do email with a dial-up PPP host?</para>
</question>
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The PPP connection is non-dedicated.</para>
<para>There are at least two ways to do this.</para>
<indexterm><primary>UUCP</primary></indexterm>
<para>The other is to use UUCP.</para>
<para>The key is to get a Internet site to provide secondary MX
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<sect2 id="mail-config">
<title>Basic Configuration</title>
<indexterm>
<primary>email</primary>
<secondary>configuration</secondary>
</indexterm>
<para>Out of the box, you should be able to send email to external
hosts as long as you have set up
<filename>/etc/resolv.conf</filename> or are running your own
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</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<indexterm><primary>SMTP</primary></indexterm>
<para>Regardless of which of the above you choose, in order to have
mail delivered directly to your host, you must have a permanent
(static) IP address (no dynamic PPP dial-up). If you are behind a
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things:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<indexterm><primary>MX record</primary></indexterm>
<listitem>
<para>Make sure that the MX record in your DNS points to your
host's IP address.</para>
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server so your users can check their mail via POP or directly on
the server.</para>
<indexterm><primary>DNS</primary></indexterm>
<para>To make life easiest, a user account with the same
<emphasis>username</emphasis> should exist on both machines. Use
<command>adduser</command> to do this.</para>