LPI Linux Certification/Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) Basics

Detailed Objectives
(LPIC-1 Version 5.0)

Weight: 3

Description: Candidates should be aware of the commonly available MTA programs and be able to perform basic forward and alias configuration on a client host. Other configuration files are not covered.

Key Knowledge Area(s):
 * Create e-mail aliases.
 * Configure e-mail forwarding.
 * Knowledge of commonly available MTA programs (postfix, sendmail, exim) (no configuration).

The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
 * sendmail emulation layer commands
 * sendmail emulation layer commands