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Hosting email services

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- [Instructor] Love it or hate it, email is a critical part of the modern world, and while most of us use email hosted by someone else, it is possible to run your own email server, if you get all the pieces set up. While email seems like one cohesive service, it's really a bunch of different components, that work together. Mail can be sent and received all on the same system, as is often the case, with a system sending notifications about it's operations. Or it can be configured to work across the internet, and that's the version we usually think of as email. If I send a message from my account, scott@example.com, to my friend Alex over on Gmail, the same mechanics are in play. At the core of email, are transport agents. Programs that receive a message from an email client, and decide how to act on it. If a message is not intended for a mailbox, that a particular agent is responsible for, it sends the message on to…

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