Week 10 at a Glance
Intro:
What I do: I run a Linux system at my house, and pay for (part of) a Linux server hosted with a hosting site. With this I have my own domain, and I run my own email servers. On my home server (which runs Ubuntu Linux), I use postfix and dovecot for my MTA (outbound and inbound respectively). I then use alpine to read my mail. It is a text-based email client that runs on a terminal window (yep, I use PuTTY to read email). This may seem inconvenient, but it also means that I am less likely to get hit by a virus (not impervious - just less likely). I also have an Android smartphone, so dovecot allows me to read email directly from my home server onto my smartphone. (I also use spamassassin and procmail to help filter out the junk email).
mailx: The first (and only) activity for this chapter is to use mailx. This is the very old, very common, email client. If I need to send out a quick email, or if I am writing a script that needs to send out email, I typically use mailx (that or something called Mail which is very similar). Most of my scripts that I write will send out email if something goes wrong, so it's always good to have a functioning version of mailx installed.