How to install and configure SMTP (Postfix) In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is a communication protocol for electronic mail transmission. The most commonly used implementations of SMTP in most Linux distributed OS are Sendmail and Postfix. Postfix is an open source mail-transfer agent that was originally developed as an alternative to Sendmail and is usually set up as the default mail server. Let's start with Postfix. Step:1 To verify the /etc/hosts file. # cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.locald