1. Message Transfer Agent (MTA)
2. Modular (SpamAssAssin)
3. Drop-in replacement for Sendmail, as it provides a 'sendmail' binary
Note: Use 'system-switch-mail*' package to switch between Postfix and Sendmail
Tasks:
1. Install Postfix
a. yum -y install postfix
/etc/postfix - primary configuration directory
/etc/postfix/main.cf - primary configuration file
/etc/postfix/transport - contains routing rules for domains
/etc/postfix/virtual - contains virtual user mappings
2. Install 'system-switch-mail' package
a. yum -y install system-switch-mail
3. Switch default MTA from Sendmail, to Postfix
a. system-switch-mail
Note: The default Postfix configuration binds to 127.0.0.1:25
4. Test local mail delivery
a. Use 'mutt' to test local delivery
4. Configure Postfix to receive messages from remote systems
a. set: inet_interfaces=all
b. set mydestinations = linuxcbt.internal
c. service postfix restart
d. Confirm directives using: 'postconf'
e. Attempt to send message from LINUXCBTSERV1 -> LINUXCBTSERV4
f. If it fails, configure MTA on LINUXCBTSERV1 to listen to routable IP
f1. update /etc/mail/sendmail.mc
f2. make all -C /etc/mail
f3. service sendmail restart
Note: Ensure that 'sendmail-cf*' package is installed, in order to updated .mc files to .cf files
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