On 9/13/2010 8:07 PM, Etienne Goyer wrote:
> On 10-09-13 08:23 PM, Daniel Curry wrote:
>>  Sounds a lot like MTAs and MUAs.
> The Linux MTA landscape have pretty much converged toward Postfix, with
> Sendmail being an important legacy.  Exim and Courier are really just
> minor players in that space, and should probably not be covered in the
> exam IMHO.
I totally agree with your assessment.
> The MUA situation is, indeed, all over the place and I am not sure they
> are worth being covered in the exam either (would there be question on
> Thunderbird?  Mutt? Evolution? Pine?).
>
> In a nutshell, if it was my call, I would have this exam cover:
>
> - Postfix in depth;
> - Sendmail in depth, focusing on the traditional interface, and possibly
When you say traditional interface are you speaking of the commercial or
open source product. Sendmail still is defalt on a few distros, but
clearly Postfix is the hands down winner. It irequires minimal effort to
secure Postfix compared to sendmail for most mail admins. Especially
those getting started that have less than three yeas experience. I won't
argue that some one who is a sendmail expert can probably come close to
what postfix is capable of.
> covering milter (although I am not entirely sure about that);
> - Courier and Exim in passing;
Agreed
> - MUA not at all, except for some knowledge of the the traditional mail
> command.
Knowing the protocol well enough to perform diagnostic tests from a
telnet prompt would be something I would minimally expect. Understanding
the protocol well enough to know the interfaction at the packet level
between the client and server might be a reasonable expectation. If you
don't know these two it can be rather tough to troubleshoot a good many
problems. Lastly the knowledge of what to look for in logs. Again in a
general sense.
>
> But that is just my 0,02$.
>
>
>> On 9/13/2010 6:18 PM, Etienne Goyer wrote:
>>>> Webmail systems such as squirrelmail, Horde, RoundCube and the like
>>>> should also be added as clients.
>>> This is a hard call.  There is no clear leader in the webmail
>>> application space, and it changes all the time.  I would leave it out of
>>> the objectives.
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