Email

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We're currrently engineering our Next Generation Email Serivce, based on Cyrus.

Contents 1 HOW TO: Maintaining email services 1.1 Server-side tasks 1.2 User support tasks 2 REFERENCE: Email infrastructure 2.1 Logical structure 2.1.1 Mail Transport And Delivery 2.1.2 Relaying email 2.1.3 IMAP/POP Services

HOW TO: Maintaining email services

Server-side tasks

• Configuring an MX server
• Making a shared email box

User support tasks

• Forcing a Blackberry to do IMAP over SSL

REFERENCE: Email infrastructure

Logical structure

(as referenced in the above diagram)

1. IMAP/POP Frontends
2. SMTP Services
3. Storage

Mail Transport And Delivery

• Delivering email
• Filtering email

• Agents
  • Mail Transport Agent (MTA) - sendmail
  • Local Delivery Agent (LDA) - procmail

Relaying email

Mail relaying is discussed in detail on the Delivering email page.

IMAP/POP Services

• see Accessing email